Art is everywhere: in books, buildings, clothes, gardens, photos, jewelry, cars, dance, plays, food, pottery, metal work, textiles, wood work – the list of what people make meaningful and beautiful is almost endless.
It would take a lifetime or two to explore it all. Here are some questions to start the process:

• Is what I’m looking at art?
• Could you argue that everything is art?
• Then what makes something art?   What qualities separate it from the every day?
• Does feeling have to be involved?
• Does it have to be beautiful?
• Does it have to be meaningful?
• Does it have to be intriguing?
• Is what we like completely relative, or are there standards that need to be met?
• Are there different levels of art?  Is some more important than others?  Is none of it important?  After all, what real good is it?
• Can art lose its importance over time?  Does it need to be renewed each generation or are there basic human ideas, needs, feelings that art always picks up on?
• Why are our opinions often so different?  What goes into our opinions?  Can they change?
• Why do people go to so much trouble to make art?  Buy it? Show it? Argue about it?
• Are artists different?  If so, what qualities do they possess?  Is it just that they have more or less of something, or are they completely different?
• Is everyone an artist in some way, however small?
• What is style?  Why is it important?  Why does it change?  Do we change first, or does the style? What does it reflect?
• What if there were no art – every car, every dress, every house, every hairstyle just did what it was designed to do?  That’s how it works in nature – so what’s with us?