Art: Pro/Con

Elaborate:


Daniel

Pro

we can express are selves with out the use of words.

Gertrude the

Pro

Ajiennkna Ruummmeres Tuwrtles

emi

Pro

Art is a free expression of emotions, thoughts, and social commentary, in which i personally take part. Anyone close-minded enought to want to stifle this form of expression is just itching for a fight.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

<mumble>

An Unknown Agent

Pro

yay freedom ringing like a thunderclap tinnitus

An Unknown Agent

Pro

That bastard still owes me money.

dandemalion

Pro

thou art.

messengager

Pro

it's good that people with talents that aren't really useful can express themselves and use a somewhat pompous word for it -isn't it?

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is a jump into self from non self

Dali Dolly

Pro

I never try not to ramble. Rambles are one of my primary coping mechanism, second only to whining. Art fulfills both of my coping needs, because I can ramble freely and still whine consistently, and need not check my spelling.

Diego

Pro

Art is the shit.

aldofarian

Pro

Pro art; Anti con.

Jacques Collin

Pro

feel the equation and equate the remainder (ramble) (feel)

Jessie

Pro

A Fox Demon

An Unknown Agent

Pro

kills the stupid pigeons finally i have blood and not shit on my head_s

An Unknown Agent

Pro

i have no fucking idea???

Amanda

Pro

I have just experienced surrealism, and it left me tired. I'm not certain about it. I need to look it over again after some sleep.

yunis

Pro

Art makes things somewhat less boring.

Einna

Pro

A city under the ground.

Mashonda

Pro

Art is alphabet soup, (not fish soup mind you,) you create what you want of it, regardless of what anybody thinks of it. Whether or not you are spelling 'my mother is a bitch' or 'im the finest specimen on earth'. Its hwo you see it.

Ben

Pro

Art makes me feel funny. Kinda tingly. Good art that is.

eva

Con

art has gone on long enough and must be stopped. oh, nevermind, they're just breeding it out with the intellect...

alayna

Pro

sometimes i go to the museum alone hoping ill meet someone else who's there alone too and we'll go out to coffee and discuss the fruedian influences in dali's work... but that never happens

An Unknown Agent

Pro

fish soup

Trish

Pro

art is a trembling little bunny, scurrying across the wide open field of humanity, dodging the evil-eyed hawks of prosaicness

lara

Pro

just pro.don't know why.just feel it.and I cannot explain feelings otherwise than in a byological manner.that's what you're expecting from me?

Kel

Pro

art is the last words of a newborn and the first breath of a deadman.

Nick

Con

what has art ever done for me?

Red is Dead

Pro

People need to create, its an outlet. Better than destrying your environment. Or someone else.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Gorilla

rebecca

Con

Your choices are too limited. I am both pro and con art.

Joe

Pro

if it wasn't ready I wouldn't be waiting

An Unknown Agent

Pro

it's great

Narwhal9

Pro

its more entertaining than television

Kirk

Con

i see

Eliphas Levi

Pro

Only if it irritates, grates, degrades those who irritate, grate and degrade.

tim)

Pro

I was in love with her

An Unknown Agent

Con

Oooh, I wouldn't if I were you - never did sound like a good thing; not natural.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

No words outside of the concious mind

An Unknown Agent

Con

It limits messages to mere paintings or sculptures

Marcus Versus

Con

Would Rimbaud have liked to be a cheek for professional tears?

BRIAN MOULD

Pro

well give my a stream of conciousness

Annie Debauch

Pro

Art is one of my favorite friends. he is a brilliant psychiatrist and a recovering addict.

Kevin Harvey

Pro

I wouldn't be filling in these little boxes, Cornell-like, with letters if I wasn't a pro.

Frater Euphigmius J. Maligny

Pro

Life is art... or, at the very least, just as messy.

Tuzgai

Pro

Truth = beauty => beaty = truth Art =? beauty => art =? truth

mary

Pro

art is the trainwreck youre not supposed to love but you do

Howl

Pro

Unless I have to analyze it, in which case it immediately earns my dire hatred.

Howl

Pro

Unless I have to analyze it, in which case it immediately earns my dire hatred.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

way to express oneself

Arty

Pro

its neither here nor there it all depends on whether humanity will be willing to accept the truth and live by it!

Red the orange

Pro

Like art, hate pretension.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

the univers is a mirror for the mid and art is the fluid that gives the mirror its shape.

gaurav

Pro

the univers is a mirror for the mid and art is the fluid that gives the mirror its shape.

An Unknown Agent

Con

Those without talent dupe those without taste.

You'd really not care

Pro

Art is what makes you think, to view the world differently. A photograph, a painting, a drawing, a dream, an new acquiantance's lawn. Art is everything.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

art is three quarters fart

Dritan

Con

because it has left no possibility or way, or manner of experiencing the world, there it is nothing left to be seen which will not remind you of something better that you had read before or seen(figuratively) or imagined..the fault being in that, that have voided the world from being, turned it in mediocrity, schematism and lifelessness,transformed into something you can not perceive or use and it(the world) being the only real tool you have to use for your virtual survival through your wondrous synoptic vigilance

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Wie ist die Kunst.

Chibi-chan

Pro

Art is everything. Life is a bit boring without it. Art doesn't want you to explain yourself. And of all the thousand words each picture has, none of them are broken promises. I like God.

Ulfhednar

Pro

I am art,therefore i am pro... I am art, trerefore i hate it.

An Unknown Agent

Con

I hate it

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art art art. Some of it is really damn good, other's are ok.

jerry

Pro

art is music, music is my life.

An Unknown Agent

Con

what?

An Unknown Agent

Con

art fags

An Unknown Agent

Pro

anything that means people are making instead of buying is double plus good

mask smith

Pro

black light velvet elvis meets black light mona lisa

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is, and art will be

doggman ta'boo

Pro

art is goood, art is life & art starts nerdy fads that non artistic people then kill themselves trying to adopt.

zm

Con

F_art

An Unknown Agent

Con

too complicated

jackal riot

Pro

Against Rational Thought

Han

Con

There are more con-artists than pro-artists.

Kristin K.

Pro

Art as a con? Life as a con? Non, non, non.

Osiris the White

Pro

Good.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Well, uh, seeing things and refining your interpretation them is reminiscent of any other activity. It is the god of all activities.

Mengaris Frustica

Con

All astronauts are frightened of cheese-graters

Chad Robb

Pro

The pursuit of hedonists and perverts.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

music is the true magic

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is unavoidable expression of life so that even elephants, chimps, birds, and probably ants feel the urge.

lick the knife

Pro

how can be anyone be truely against anything?

catherine

Pro

i think im actually against it.brings out the worst in folk and people too.eats all my money and freinds and keeps me awake at night.

weRhere&itis2bad4U

Pro

Beauty will be convulsive, or will not be at all.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

it looks nice sometimes

kristine

Pro

I think it's fun.

Katy

Pro

As I am lazy and unashamed I will quote someone more intelligent than I- 'Life bears down and crushes the soul, art reminds you that you have one.'

Lola

Pro

You can achieve positions never thought possible in, um...real life, I guess.

sinclaire

Pro

socrates said we need beauty for peace to be enacted. all art is beauty.

The bigger "e"

Pro

I see you. You look good. Are you art?

An Unknown Agent

Pro

what are we here to do if not to make and experiencs art?

An Unknown Agent

Pro

SOMETHING FROM NOTHING NOTHING FROM SOMETHING GROPING OR NOT GROPING AND GETTING THE SAME RESULT MOVING BEYOND THE FEEBLENESS OF LIFE

An Unknown Agent

Pro

SPONTANEOUS SCRATCHING AND CLAWING AT MY WORLD AS A MODUS OPERANDI

An Unknown Agent

Con

SOME CONS ARE ART

Fletcher

Pro

it makes my eyes feel.

poyc23

Con

art is reality masturbation of the Emin

An Unknown Agent

Pro

par excellence!

Hoonos

Pro

one art

joy

Pro

art becomes an insight into other's souls

i have no name

Pro

Art is self explanitory

preston the super phro

Pro

sex is good.

A Glass Onion

Pro

blah

Nino Toro

Pro

If by art thou meanest yeast, then PRO. Breads just won't rise without it. I refuse to eat. But unyeasted bread is like a millimeterstone when all around have mile-stones. Shmarty farty is me. Boy, what A deduction.

Oprah Einstein Less

Pro

If by art thou meanest yeast, then PRO. Breads just won't rise without it. I refuse to eat. But unyeasted bread is like a millimeterstone when all around have mile-stones. Shmarty farty is me. Boy, what A deduction.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

that's just silly.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Ok,I'll try.Art is basically what I live for.If it weren't for literature, painting, cinematography,music(well,this is what I take interest in),live wouldn't be worth living.Really.

Gij Gothlow

Pro

Art is rambling. Touché!

An Unknown Agent

Con

>art< and words

thrystero

Pro

Art IS to ramble

John the Hat

Con

Although art is influental and intruiging, the majority of civilization is ignorant to the knowledge of pure art and are thus ignorant to the cost. Or the cheese I steal.

Conan the Librarian

Pro

I try not to ramble - but how else can you walk over rough ground ? I would try trekking but I have never done anything with with double k's in it before, and I feel nervous. Maybe I should buy a gekko and see if I get any problems.

Monsieur Moonbucket

Con

Art unsettles me. Art makes me helplessly ALIVE. Art cops a feel on my sensibilities.

Noah

Con

Im so pro art that I'm saying con to make an artistic statement.

Noah Harvey

Con

Dadaism ate my mother

Prince Eric

Pro

Takes your mind off everything everyone else is thinking of... Mental individuality

lily jean

Pro

whine & cheese

An Unknown Agent

Pro

(Try not to ramble without cause)

(johnoptional)

Pro

(all creativity comes from god} {Try not to ramble)

An Unknown Agent

Con

cocoon of co-cons-pirates

Jim Morrison

Pro

In art, I have known many cons, but very few pros. The crime thing (Artists, nay, Poets are mystic criminals. Professionals are cheese peddlers.

Myfriendscallmedead

Pro

See Poetic Genius(above)

Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney

Pro

Art is the act of capturing the assumed unknown.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is refective of nature and the need for humans to nurture.

Terry

Pro

Hummingbird

An Unknown Agent

Pro

the sun is shining and things still aren't so great

melting slowly

Pro

Art? Eh. Art. 'Tis art, tis it not? What else need be said?

mew

Pro

out of all the 3-letter words, art is the best. Think about what its up against: Poo, zit, god... but tit is also a 3-letter word... i may have to question this theory

pixie christ

Pro

art is a slavery. it's a burning death that should take your entire life and transform you into a being of absolute terror and pain.

GONADTHEBALLBARIAN

Pro

As long as I can connect the dots...........

hugh knox

Pro

art is the publication of the unconscious

An Unknown Agent

Pro

I think... shit, let me start over. I think I should get a delete key on this keyboard. Without art, I couldn't write this sentence. Without art, that sentence would say, "Without I couldn't write this sentence," which is broken sentencery.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

aRT IS

An Unknown Agent

Pro

i consider myself a problematic, juxtapositional, and ontological professional con artist

ego squid

Pro

life is short; burn brightly

mynameisedit

Con

Its deceptive and people try to make themselves better than others with it, even when they arent necessarily better. It distracts one from what was happening and that could be important.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

says to me..."Put your red high heels on and give me some ass."

a plauge upon both of your houses.

Pro

Art is good only when it provolkes thoughts that would not normally ocurr. If that is the case then i am pro, if not, then con.

?

Pro

some of my best friends are artists...

jak

Pro

Migglefog?

Tom

Pro

Limits my imagination by showing me the boundaries of others.

KSara

Pro

good for unleashing the below the belt material that is usually accessed through sleep and bad breakups

arrogantly me

Con

I am not one of those artsy-fartsy type guys that simply 'must have' every type or sort of new type art,nor am I the type to want to have any of the older age type stuff things either...I like some types,but not enough to wanna buy anything too expensive.......

name?why?who wants2 know?why so many questions?who cares?dammit,ANSWER ME!!!

Pro

the purple skies are nothing compared to a boiled egg

normal human being

Pro

Art is anything against everything.

death

Pro

rambllllllllllllllllllllllle

Rook

Pro

Without art, we would all swallow our tongues. Or some of us would, anyway. The right ones of us, anywho.

d. karezza

Pro

Art is like death. My teddy bear when I was four emerged into prophylactic adulthood as the shadow of the ramblas. I defecate on the ruins of the claustrophobic empire of two fat men picked by chance. My last lover died in the pullman car of the train taking her to Toronto. The one before that hanged herself in a quiet sylvan corner of the Black Forest. She provided well for the falcons who had always been her friends. My image of eternity is the face of the child of abstruse and impregnable theology. My current lover is someone well known, but not as my lover, whom I meet every day to bring them a package of olives. Art? It is irrelevant. It is founded on facts such as these. It is everything.

Shaye St. John

Pro

Art frees the soul and clears the mind. Art is what seperates humans from animals...right? I did see an elephant paint with its trunk once but I really don't think you could call that art.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

To paraphrase Brust, art is what the artist thinks is cool. Everyone has something they think is cool, and they're happier when they encounter it, so, yeh, I'm definitely in favor of art.

Bunny

Pro

I color real pretty and that makes me happy!!!

Gary Wynn Kemper

Pro

Everything is art inits own way.

blah blahblah

Pro

art is a problematic, ontological juxtaposition of materials which astheticizes and dichotomizes the blah blahblah.

Wez

Pro

Art is the manifestation of our emotions.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

it is the reflection of colour or the lack thereof that brings life to the inner sources

An Unknown Agent

Con

Come on. Let's not bullshit ourselves on this point. Show me Orlene Baird.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

oR NOT TO BE

An Unknown Agent

Pro

are there any other products of the human mind worth mentioning?

An Unknown Agent

Pro

I do.

meaghan

Pro

it hurts so good

Irwin P Hedgehog

Pro

this is art.

dale smosny

Pro

Tai Chi movement # 23

Claudia

Pro

i love photograghy, wanna study it.

freestone

Pro

the smoke of my cigar dances in the light from between the blinds. that should cover everything. http://home.earthlink.net/~adrianadamsalpha/index.html

static rover

Con

Art should not be an effort to please anyone. I'm not even convinced it should be an effort to please oneself. Art should be masochistic, except devoid of pleasure. It wasn't much like that at any point in time.

Andrew

Pro

Art is okay, it's artists who are the problem. We need another Khmer Rouge, one that realises that peasants and workers aren't the problem, artists are.

Moineau

Con

gzzzz

An Unknown Agent

Pro

art = pretty

Alpherat

Pro

Art is what happens when... ... Art is what happens.

Lazy ol' Me.

Pro

art is sexy.

Fotschnod

Pro

Expression of a creative sort gives wings to the free people trapped behind the scrimm- - - Art is the vehical of the ghost inthe machine because it's best excuse is "subjectivity". (that and the fact that the molding sheet of steel that Andy Warhol pissed-on is STILL called "Art".

tinageta

Pro

will save. the world. or whatever.

the family poo

Pro

it's good.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

what can I say?

WHO?

Pro

art as accordia is fullfiment of retinal drawers. because expression is myself and i am MYLOCK lamarckian dog ergo primus titus

the scratch

Pro

increasingly self-referential as the gene pool weakens.

james

Pro

art makes people happy to make and i like to look at it

sara

Pro

Arts what will save us all in the end

Tait

Pro

Art is the personal expression of existence, how could one mpt be for it? Unless of course they were not for existence...

"Henry Quirk"

Con

What passes for art these days blows...pretentious shit made for the elite, who themselves wouldn't know their collective ass from a hole in the ground

Jose

Pro

Less of the time, because people use to find art or produce huge amounts of art that is nothing but desperate ways to attract attention, monstrosity pieces of crap or a red brick over a macaroni & cheese bowl

william woon

Pro

cos it cares what it does while not careing of the view of others

Amena Divine

Pro

is expression of self.

sp

Pro

is aooreciated and seen in the eye of the beholder.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

i'm a pro at being a con(artist)

wolf saunders

Pro

truth, beauty, expressionism, rats and goats cheese.

peace in a can

Con

Art is not a word, not a form, but a divine expression of emotion. It is your aura extending to touch another's energy. Art as 'art' is not art. Feel me, feel you... See into the spooky depth of my mind.

courtney labia

Con

Shoot Low-The Scores are higher the pimple and the low brow breed together and sell hot dogs outside my lifeless window. im hungry and i smell weiners cooking all the long day.

GEFF

Pro

I AM A PRO

ross

Pro

i'm taking a cultural bath if you reely WANT2NO

An Unknown Agent

Pro

I like to feel.

lain

Pro

makes you forget when you're hungry or makes you realize you're hungry for other things

lucas

Con

"/el arte/ es tener mucho frio" But it just in my estate, fuck you because you will never understand the real sense. It´s a word game.

Byony

Pro

'fuck off cilla black' is not art

Sleazeface McDougal

Pro

Ah, this is the probelmatic cusp of the eye of the pupil of the hurricane of today's temporal-spatial religio-politic-elitist climate. Arborally speaking, the juxtaposition of the wind in our nooks is diametrically opposed to the dialectic of our limbs versus the very foundations of our ontological roots... and so it was for many generations of Hegelian scholars. But let us no longer astheticize truth, rather let's create new creative dichotomies. Now is the day when a new Tide(tm) will turn to move the falling stones of the temples of detergentating western culture. Thus, "Art!" spake Zarathustra.

Juna Glow

Pro

I cannot elaborate at the moment. Art is vague, but controls us all.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

When the inner creative process mirrors the innate creativity of Nature, life becomes Art. Art is not something you do when you're bored. It's the way you live your life. "We have art so that we shall not die of reality." --Nietzche Yeah.

Optional O. Opt

Con

Thirty years on that pestilant island, with the vicious gyrating virgins with coconut shell bras, made me convinced, convicted, contrary, convivial, and in need of penicillin. con. con. ed. vive.

Laura

Pro

Nothing more to say than everything is art!

Bishop

Pro

Ramble ramble ramble Over brook and bramble Into the lake Oh what a fake! If I were a bear I would amble

An Unknown Agent

Pro

sticky, complicated, irrational, arousing, candy-colored, sinful, fun for the whole family

david

Pro

Art is not talk; it is not big words. Art is feeling, life, doing. To talk about art is not art (so quit kidding yourself)

Q2

Pro

if the artist is defunded by the Republican congress does that make her brilliant?

kinbote

Pro

why not?

TOMA-TOE

Pro

daily , your mind eats you.you do nothing in your hole life. you're fidgeting.

moss that has gathered on a rolling stone

Pro

inserted intravenously through your veins, it makes you drunk

kamunki

Pro

art makes my head flat and my hands weep

An Unknown Agent

Con

art rhymes with fart in some cases, it can bring out unwanted frangrances, specially for the ones who consider themselves as wizards to sum it all up they think too much on how to appear spontaneously brilliant blah blah i can't even write well i wish it was in french nevermind....pro/con

derek

Pro

influenced of italian/spanish/dutch rennaissance, baroque, mannerism, bosch, comic books (no tights and capes please), surrealism, carravagio, alex grey, mondrian, kandinsky, rodin, dave mckean, cubism, tool, nin, leechwoman, velvet underground, pink floyd, led zepplin, bach, betthoven, sulpher, ministry, skinny puppy, throbbing gristle, frank zappa, tom waits, einstruende nuebauten and many others.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

i like to see art the really represents want it suppose to be. If one paints or draws a cat ltet it look like a CAT!

Rocco

Pro

I won't.

Kirsten

Pro

is don is good, ya!

Perry

Pro

its good, i like it

Theo

Pro

in the sense that he only ever captured your beauty through the words of stale men pushing up daisies, we need the collective speech of your universally tired brain to get us through the hours of our stumbling days

Rebecca

Pro

Art, that's right.

What is this "name" you speak of I own it not and if I did I don^Òt think I could get it in the computer.

Pro

Multicolored arrays of lavender are more beautiful than white paint walls and cardboard Bridges my mind like a happy duckling singing ^Óflagryaa flagryaa flagryaa, alfididi^Ô in the morning lights My dreams as a salmon, from eyeball infested corps, is squeezed Your frontal lobes to mush I do. These are the benefits of artful displays of the minds art

Juliette du Soleil

Pro

Art is.

Erin

Pro

Without art I wouldn't starve so efficiently

Your mother's only child

Con

An artist can create garbage and pass it off as otherwise. I, on the other hand, must take out the garbage on Saturdays.

jason

Con

i think art is too complicated to confine to the output of a person. art is what i want it not to be in order for me to really enjoy it.

fan

Pro

express yourself

evil horse

Pro

the problematic juxtapostion of whats wrong with the self conscious, ontologically speaking that is.

carrie

Pro

The first question you ask is "who are you anyway?" No matter how answered it is in a form of art. Words are art, paintings are art, dance is art, everything is Art. If you do not favor art you are hypocritical.

null

Pro

professional con?

nada

Pro

art by my definition, i am pro art, "art" is no where and everywhere

An Unknown Agent

Pro

art

nobody: alias El Gordo

Pro

useless indulgence expanding horizons of conciousness in orgasmic extasy at a subliminal level

chris

Pro

art is like sex; I love doing it, i love watching it, and when it's really good it just blows your mind

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Kunst er det fedeste der findes. Do you copy to that.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Fuck Art

Reverend Xenakaboom

Pro

Without art, where is the visual stimulai?

Djuna

Pro

I write for myself and strangers. Let the priests tremble! We're going to show them our texts!

Alex

Pro

Help.

kendall

Con

i feel art is constantly hiding behind a bush with a very sharp stick, waiting to poke me incessently the instant i forget it's there. i dislike its aesthetic splinters.

vicki

Pro

is

Matthew.Smith

Pro

Art should be beautiful, or at least interesting

Jason

Pro

I knew a guy named Art once. His son did a lot of drugs...

( less that self, more than other )

Pro

(Art: does not ramble, is abject, taunts me with each creative services invoice I write.)

moira

Pro

love it. it's as much a part of my life as breathing.

jaffa

Pro

art is poetry of life is pain i love it is i am

jessica

Pro

It's what I do instead of hurting people or myself. I do not like jail. Art keeps me out of jail. Therefore art must be good.

susan

Pro

without it some would never experience reality

William

Pro

Slap as many people in the face as possible

Erin

Pro

##$#$^*^*&~<~<~<~<~<~>~>~>~>~>~$*^*^$#$## woo! art!

Erin

Pro

I'm an artist and without art what would I be? I wouldn't!

Bonnie

Pro

It expresses the drive for world domination.

ralph the bear

Pro

I like arts and farts and blueberry tarts. Fuck the jocks at my old school.

Dr. Mantle Hood

Pro

it makes me feel good

Arbitrary string of Latin characters

Pro

Good art is good, bad art isn't good.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

it is an escape (and expression) for my anxious, paranoid, depressed and lulled self--it also may be a way to change and alter the boring life we live.

derek

Pro

it's fun!

Jim

Pro

I gives a fair ground for elitism.

What's in a Name ....a name's not always of our choosing

Pro

i make it read about it it is me

Crystaviel

Pro

It just tastes so good.

Heather

Pro

I like getting paint on my nose. Therefore, art is good.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

It just is

Trip

Pro

Hahaha. Art is life. All things are art. Ooops... did I ramble just now?

ARP (2)

Pro

Art is long; life is short. Art is therefore clearly better than life (size matters).

Debbi Irene

Pro

Is like an opinion, it's truth belongs to you

rooster

Pro

as long as it's orange

swiftkick

Pro

nihil pro absurdum

miss optional

Con

i won't ramble. quite simply, it can be a pile of shit!

A R P

Pro

Life is short, and art is long, hence clearly better.

Josh

Con

This conception that art and the artist are two different and distinct things doen't gel. Fuck "art." You ARE art.

Pongshrom

Pro

on my shoulders looks so lovely, in my eyes can make me cry...

Noah Freedman

Pro

art is good. no complaints there...

jessica

Pro

gives your brain a kick start for imagination

antiputti gal

Pro

cheap and erotic sex for the mind

Edith Bunker

Con

Art commodifies will. I am alone, there is no art where I am.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art forces thought. Without thought we stagnate. Stagnation causes rot. Rot causes death. Art keeps one alive inside and out.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art's a nice guy.

Chris

Con

Art projects like this are really dumb.

jack ass

Pro

art is life, life is art

Camel L. Leopard

Pro

Artist. Despite that, art is cherished. That's why I have to kill it by further equalizing it with every other form of expression, including but not limited to fat men sweating.

d

Pro

Prostitution for the masses

An Unknown Agent

Pro

yes art is good. Me like pretty pictures.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

It's good.

Sam

Pro

IT is an expression. A distorsion of reality, showing what we can't see that might or might not be there. It inspires us to think

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is a little piece of myself hung up on the wall. if you don't want to see it, don't ask where it is.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

i dont feel like it

An Unknown Agent

Pro

I make my living doing performance art. Most art is pretty silly, I think, but since it feeds me, I'm definately pro.

An Unknown Agent

Con

I'll Kick arts ASS

natasha

Pro

pro-looking con-talking

wincey

Pro

it gives the insane a purpose.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

creating art is freeing to the artist. to sell or mass produce art is desperate and lazy

DECLAN MCMULLAN

Pro

Because I am.

Sean k.

Pro

What is art? Does it taste good? what does it feel like when it lightly touches your skin in an arousing manner? we will never good, we can just asume that it tastes good...

Whats it to you?

Pro

well, it just tastes sooooo good!. who can resist going up and licking all the art in the gallary?

Meegs

Pro

Art is good, it expalains what we cannot, be it visual art, musical art, dramatic art, or literary art.

Witney

Pro

Raw creation is more real than that we call "real." It is greater than ourselves. It, like everything, is God in us. The fellow sneezing on the canvas, or the mechanic making sure the world works correctly. We are artists. We are God.

(optionalDonovan)

Pro

A Rambler is artistic. Especially if it has been chopped and Kandy Koated.

sayid-set von schtiegenvundt III

Pro

the most concise, succinct and honest form of expression of self regardless of medium

Jassos

Pro

if only in the hands of those that burn it...

An Unknown Agent

Pro

ars gratia artis

cutiflor

Pro

art is included in walmart

Ami

Pro

Of course I am pro, because I am an artist. But I am sick of the blah sort of art I am seeing in my own university. No one taking any chances. No one wants to be sublime, disgusting or ridiculous. I am PRO BAD ART. Bad art meaning art that is not ordinarily considered safe, comfortable, palatable, etc... I am all for a more liberal definition of what art can be...

Arizu Teotlcoatl

Pro

It looks pretty. What?! You said not to ramble...fine it's a medium of expression, plus it serves as some peoples livelyhood. But it's a bit difficult to define. I've been know to stare at trash for up to 7 minutes in appretiation of its artistic qualities.

anne o'neame

Con

Art with Capital A is Bad. everything else is life

F.R. Dinglemonger

Pro

I am not allowed to make art here. They don't allow it. It is banned where I live. I have a very empty life full of hair balls and stark walls. I am a good citizen and do what I am told. No art.

Kitten Van der Klumps

Pro

the glass of the marbles will be crushed into an elaborate portrait of a miasma architypal image of THE MAMA. When it is erected you shall bow down to it. Revere it and find sanctity in it. It shall be mounted to the ceiling of your black van at a later date. This is a reminder of the ever present Mama. The leader you took an oath to die for. The rest of the marbles will be sold to a taxidermist who specializes in the preservation of the eyes of the midgets you keep mutilating.

Dara

Pro

art is cool as long as it is truly creative and not just to be "cool".

Fyodor Vlokov

Con

art has become a mess. and that is why they think it is art. charlatans with paint and nothing epistemoligically.

An Unknown Agent

Con

wall covers for house cats

cindygoo

Pro

i'm sorry, i ramble to much to answer this question

P.A.Mama's secretary

Pro

Here is today's message: find purpose within the code: PA Mama is everywhere...decipher the code........ *sfdkj sf79w339s fdsjf[SdfsPPP] ooop dsfdh 46614*.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

The enthusiasums of others make for good sport.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Purple and green locus of conception.

Adam Varo

Pro

Art is pretty...

Ian

Pro

Express 'your'self. Express the self.

Ms Kitten Van der Klumps

Pro

The existence of P.A. Mama is all you would need to know

Gwendolyn Von Burden

Pro

what do you mean? please elaborate more with this survey's survey question. I am though a pro and a con so what other choices do I have? Do you have other options for me? Please do, I extend the unused portion of my brain to you which by the way they tell me (by survey in fact) that ALL humans etc. use only 10 to 15% at the most of their brain so I have much to learn from your options. Also I am very good at following steps. As I metioned earlier I can follow directions, especially when the ingrediant Rouge #33 is involved: step two proceeds step one, step one preceeds step two, step three proceeds step one and two, and four preceeds step five, repeat, then carefully continue to step five..repeat again..I am beginning to understand

P.A. Mama

Con

rambling...elaborating. the cons of conscience and the pros of probation

el mariem

Pro

l'Angoisse qui fait les fous l'Angoisse qui fait les suicidés l'Angoisse qui fait les damnés l'insondable Abîme

An Unknown Agent

Pro

No.

Pro

jumble-mind midgy pretensis happenstilt boo

An Unknown Agent

Pro

I believe in Freedom of Speach

Jason

Pro

Art can be used for many purposes. I hammered a nail using the man's head on a reproduction of The Kiss and then admired the kiss itself.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

non-medical anti-depressant

gone

Pro

Volant Dilation

An Unknown Agent

Pro

dadadadada dadadadadadadada dada dada dada

Cameleopard

Pro

Err blest the nose yon skipper caught Bust was naught but me bulletproof vest And ordr'd the rest with poetic refrain be sought The idiocy with which it's fraught, better back to incest!

Starkman

Pro

Yes. Elaborate, yet plain simple.

Chelsea FOX

Con

I'd rather lick shit off my shoe than put up with another artist and his/her art ever again.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Interested by the archetypical energy of universal esthetics.

Vanessa

Pro

I like it.

david pasquinelli

Con

firstly, i will ramble if i want to. second, art is for fags. Why do you ask, are you some kind of fag?

princess

Pro

it's the artists themselves i can't stand

rudy sinclair

Con

The bow in the mirror is an eyetooth w/which width witch (she getting a rolla) ditch witch slumpen drunken strumpet slut she reeks of Ripple tiny ripples in mud puddle face down momma been a longa humpucker I protest you come back you didn^Òt come back

An Unknown Agent

Pro

I want to not want to write and be creative, i wish i was an idiot, which i probably am.

erica

Pro

tis beauty in souls incarnate

STEVE

Pro

ATR IS A FORM OF SELF EXPRESSION. IT IS BEAUTYN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

ramblerambleramblerambleramblerambleramblerambleramblerambleramblerambleramblerambleramblerambleramble

Corwin

Pro

Art is just... this... thing... that some... people... hang their... problems on...

Ian

Pro

All art is bunk. Bunk implies bed, bed implies sleep, to sleep perchance to dream....to dream perchance to awaken.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

I like what I know

An Unknown Agent

Con

Art is sweatwear trying to uphold every year.

mike

Pro

Art, without the problematic juxtaposition of its ontological and purely aesthetic senses, can be entertaining and educating.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

I like art.

Emperor Lettuce

Con

I found one in my shoe last night

An Unknown Agent

Con

art and fart are only one letter apart. how poetic.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Only if its hidden under beds.

Bec

Pro

..... Liberty to say and feel in a visual and tangible sort of a way. Freedom

bum

Pro

i like pretty pictures

Generalissimo Nemo

Pro

I know what I like.

rhiannon

Pro

Yippee!!!!!!!!!!

danielle

Pro

art... mmm..

An Unknown Agent

Con

my art teacher is too hot

An Unknown Agent

Pro

One needs something to do, in order to fill up the empty spaces between birth and death.

Mr. Aluminum Siding

Con

Art killed my fish. Damn you, Art. You spineless bastard.

izzy

Con

controlling art "teachers" turn creative juices into dust.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

ot to ramble)

cKey Headrubby

Pro

it gives the masses something to by confused by. that is good.

Irene

Pro

arty

An Unknown Agent

Con

pretentious schmucks filling the air with useless noise!

Ebony

Pro

Art rules! Art is the expression of life.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

home is where the art is.

Kent Kemmish

Pro

Like rimbaud and akutagawa sodomizing bathtub drains.

Ed

Pro

It justifies my weed adiction!

daemon protocol

Pro

Art is good so long as it is entertaining and (at least relatively) inspiring. The purpose of art is not to change the world, and it is certainly not to make money. When I grow up, I'm going to be a cactus.

k

Pro

it's stuff; important non-things/things

Neq The Sword

Pro

Expand the bridge between mind subconscious and the cortex of your (possibly twisted) soul. Reaching deep and flowing your energy onto canvas. Focussing the bicameral movement of your physical body materializing visions.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Pro. Pro. Pro your boat

Deformed Void

Pro

It is something that does not need to be defined.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

This is assuming the stuff I write can be called art. It amuses me to write it.

"magistrate" Anna Owomoyela

Pro

Art... Speaks what cannot be expressed Soothes the mind and gives it rest Heals the heart and makes it whole Flows from heavent o the soul.

Rolls

Pro

Art helps me to forget all the people in the street. Perhaps I'm not being specific enough? Ahh. I could tell you but then youd havetokillme.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

any thing that allows people to get away with a virgin mary made out of feces hanging in MOMA is cool with me

Tera Corazone

Pro

It is a view into the depths of the soul of the person who created it. Or it is a piece of crap created to make a quick buck. The problem is being able to determine which it is.

sadtomato

Pro

Art is good. but you are bad.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Pro-art is

Katie Joy

Pro

I went to the Maryland Art Institute from 90-92. Decided not to continue upon becoming fully fed up with the eletism of Art Culture. Wanted to reach "the masses"/average working class Janes-n-Joes.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

((try not to ramble) Art is a certain rambling, or is what creates rambling. The rambling that comes out of ones encounter with the hilarious gaps in the lines-planes of existence. Art is a spreading of viruses. Viruses do hardly exist. Viruses are ontologically problematic, as they are the juxtapostion of life and death, or inbetween life and death. Art is dead as long as it is defined. Therefor I say, art is viral Otherwise 'I am' the former Unknown Agent, who accidently didn't like to get e.mails - but I'd like mails, and doesn't feel like filling out the survey again, although I guess it has changed...

An Unknown Agent

Pro

(try not to ramble) Art is a certain rambling. The rambling that comes out of ones encounter with the hilarious gaps in the lines-planes of existence. Art is a spreading of viruses. Viruses do hardly exist. Viruses are ontologically problematic, as they are the juxtapostion of life and death, or inbetween life and death. Art is dead as long as it is defined. Therefor I say, art is viral

Justin

Pro

its cool

Little Nemo

Pro

I enjoy art.

Anthony?

Pro

What's wrong with it?

k

Pro

ehm . . . it's nice to look at

Bilious IV, Pope, the

Pro

Art's beauty nicely offsets the ugliness of business and politics. But it's not as good as pornography.

The Log Lady

Pro

The people who believe they know what they are talking about probably do, but they still offend with their elitist views and superiority complexes. Art is a secret appreciation for fear of humiliation through ignorance. 93% of the population agrees with me my friend. I know. Just ask them.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is good, it is a form of humour

Reverend Ruben Lucid

Con

It is the part of the artist to lie to the public or they might uppity and think they can do it too.

Christine

Pro

Art is the embodiment of the randomness that lurks within the human (and some animals) mind. Be it evil or good, it allows us to connect to the world.

bernadette

Pro

it makes me feel good

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is your mother, your father and your brother. Art is currently pregnant with your baby sister.

JRGII

Pro

A good idea.

Jon

Pro

La casa tiene una roja puerta. Can you see that?

An Unknown Agent

Con

It makes me furious.

An Unknown Agent

Con

Aluminum Martin dilemma fraud file: There his name in its places inside, but do not limit unenviable position of second lieutenant Pointy. Secret aluminum history Whistleblower their Miteinbeziehung with southern air. Alexander and cocaine and is aluminum. EL Salvadoran, is the background. Venezuela niche Busters George, the calculation Air Forces, the etc.. They are Casey and the north olive begun the wholesale fraud smuggling, a negro in the army.

AeroMexico

Pro

its al about the mexican pyramides

David Ponder

Pro

Gives people an avenue of exploration to find joy in life.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

it is good

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Its good (yeah)

mike gangel

Pro

art is a unique and happy form of self-expression

Lisa Keilman

Pro

I think art is very interesting. Some of it is boring, but most of it is very unique.

Ted LaBoube

Pro

Art is a positive thing

Erin Santarc

Pro

I like art

Shelby Cowley

Pro

It's the ultimate expression of oneself. I wish I was talented enought to do it.

AEIOU

Pro

Art spelled backwards is Tra. God spelled backwards is dog. See the connection?

An Unknown Agent

Pro

art passes the time before death

Chris Johnson

Pro

It can keep someone intraced while you sneak up and knock them out.

John D. Devine

Pro

Art is the only escape- and that is all that's left now is escape. Cynical? Yes.

Mandy

Pro

It's an outlet of thoughts and feelings. A way to cope.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

'pro', but in the verbal rather than visual sense. I hate paintings. books are infinitely better.

Snow White and Blood Red

Con

The last new thought was stolen by Emili Dickenson, and all works of beauty are public domain. The artist claims to be a warden of such things for the human race, but she doesn't even know me.

Heavy depressed but fun to play

Pro

I'm an artist myself...I only hate others

Emperor Zorg

Pro

Ive never had ebola

Luca Pilotto

Pro

Is the number three the perfect number? Think of how many different culture you can incorporate in a three letter word.

Reema

Pro

a vessel for solipsist indulgance

An Unknown Agent

Pro

art passes the time before death

Ian

Pro

I am a pro-art con artist.

Darché

Con

you'll have to be more specific.

Stamatis

Pro

...but only as a vehicle of destruction

An Unknown Agent

Pro

The position benig taken is not to be mistaken for attepmted education, or rightious accusation. Its only a description, just an observation, of the pitiful condition of our degeneration.

An Unknown Agent

Con

All of life is art. To try and package it for sale has got to be a con.

anais420

Pro

bah....people have made "art" a lifestyle-and have killed it by doing so. sad, but there are always exceptions i guess....

too paranoid to give out

Pro

I love going out-of-body.

Julienne

Pro

i almost want to say that art is a con because it annoys me so much sometimes, for instance all of my paintings are painful for me to think about them, i dont even really know how to describe it, thats just how it is. However, art i believe is one of the purest things left, it is a reprieve from this superficial world.

emz...

Pro

Art allows us to create timeless pieces, more tactile than any other form of communication, it can touch anyone's soul (if they allow it to do so). luv it...

Skye

Con

causes riots, distracts from daily tasks, usually ugly

Earthan

Con

Oh yes, definately.

HUBERT ALBERT RITZAU

Pro

SENSATIONAL

kim

Con

beauty?

Snotweasel®

Pro

It keeps Pseudo intellectuals off the street.

Les Mouches

Pro

Thought is the only threat to art, and politicans the only threat to thought.

Liam Chaelber

Pro

Art is manipulation. Manipulation is art. Surrealism is so-real, and to be real is to be free

An Unknown Agent

Con

YOU FASCIST ASSHOLES ARE GOING TO GET IT GODDAMMIT!

kiyotei

Pro

rambless entry #01345 Art is communication. Electronic media speeds communication. Therefore modern art is electronic.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

COZ IT ROCKS

Eddie Encino

Pro

Art is a shirt that says CHICK DOIN' MACHINE in crayon or marker.

William

Pro

Art is clam chowder.

optional operator

Pro

one man's art is another man's shit on the wall with a frame around it

Dozzent E. Quate

Con

I firmly believe this. Art is con.

Dave

Pro

For appropriate definitions of `art', it can be a Very Good Thing.

Eddie Encino

Pro

art-shmart, I'm a goddamned gypsy today. I is art.

Jones

Pro

a Proffesional Con.

Chris Wyczolkowski

Con

Art has become a devalued currency abused by the mainstream for too long. I am into expression, physical and verbal, but for those still caught up in last century, drawing and writing are good too

Kathy

Pro

Art is all

William

Pro

Art is clam chowder.

deafboy

Pro

is what we make when we stop trying to be someone else.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

I found it was problematic in the sense that I couldn't juxtapose the ontological notion of being as against the paradoxical nature of oxymoronism.

Tusk

Pro

Art is my bloody sledgehammer.

Curt Esser

Pro

Art is in the eye of the beholder - or maybe some other bodily part.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

because i do actualy think its nice...hmmm

An Unknown Agent

Pro

emotions envisioned

snorkel

Pro

To be a con of art is to deny that you wear it, carry it, read it, watch it, walk on it, talk through it, hide behind it, depend on it, need it and eat it? To be a con of art, a lonely naked cold starving world. Its so high you can't get over it, so low you can't get under it, so wide you can't get around it, so you must go in the door...

Swiff-t

Pro

Good for the mind expansions.

gordon

Con

ramble, ramble, ramble, ramble

dork

Pro

yaya! Yost rustle cast alongside! Cleveage!

Joshua the Nordic degenerate

Pro

manipulate and celebrate

seyda

Pro

art is a sense of being in interaction,a piece of a flow which creates one million effects on the subject as watcher,as doer, the object as the flow and the world at all.

Stephanotis

Con

Art is for punks

Zero

Pro

art qua art is a problematic juxtaposition of the more inaccurate and pedantic concepts of an ontologically obscure elephant

why?

Pro

art is there so i can laugh at it. yours especially. its attempted expression of half-comprehended asthetics, like the random words shat out of the editors of this page. whose art? my art? well by all means, look at it and tell me what you see. i see colors on canvas. you see a can opener.

Death

Pro

Art is the expression of oneself when oneself sees that words cannot say what he wants to say.

Kimbo

Pro

People can't explain me or my actions. Art can not be explained by anyone except it's creator, and I create who I am.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is the gift of seeing inside the truth and draging it into the open.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is tra.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

neccesary in the existance of the race

An Unknown Agent

Pro

I want a desire!!!! Anything will do

GRRRRRRRR

Pro

Why not?

POOP

Pro

Art is the last home of the romantic. It is the evolution of man gone mad. Rage, filth, porno, beauty, grace, love - art.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

i am whatever u say i am and i am just living for all of u who blame me but its ok i live for you and i just want my freedom..

Jewn4Fire

Pro

Ever since I was born. Watch,listen,feel,study the beauty of another's gift and passion. WHY does it get NO support?! It is a dying culture as we speak. (In the U.S. of Hell anyway) short enough for ya?

Nadine

Pro

When the last polutant destroys the last peach I will eat art and live happily.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art makes me giggle

Paul

Pro

Art is nice.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

arte is one of the doors, arte is nothing yet andeniable.

Eric Payne

Con

$100,000,000 for some paint splashed on canvas, ya gotta be kiddin' me!

An Unknown Agent

Pro

3 letters. No sense.

\et

Pro

Fuck art, says Charley. (See above)

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Pro

EVERYTHING IS ART

Christiansleaze

Pro

It's the best abbreviation I know for Arthur...

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is a form of expression entirely removed from reality.com and exhibited by citizens such as Dali & Picasso. Dali is a rooker by reg. &some of the greatest dope smokers make artists.b They can't help it, everyone creates offspring. Especially, Dexter Holland. The Stones were stoned and the Beatles were on tweeters. Mo Mowlam was muddled by drugs but cannabis will see her right soon.

Chris Leary

Con

It's just not right how these people can display themselves so prominently to people who want nothing from them. Who chooses these odd folks? They are clearly annoying, in the "I wish they weren't near me, and they are not as exciting as they think" sense of the word.

(Kirsten)

Pro

My own Art is all that exsists to me. Any artist will tell you the same if they are honest.

SUBOBJECTIVUS

Pro

Art is............ Art is good, art is bad, it is smelly Art is fun and boring, it is there to amuse you whilst consuming large amounts of free alcohol at exhibition openings, Look, I dunno,, I am a pro(fessional) con(man/vict) There hasn't been anything good said or done about it since Marcel Duchamp took up chess (although there's still been some nice stuff to look at since) I did warn, I do dribble Oh yes, and I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahah

Atilla

Pro

Pretty. I like pretty things.

Peter Gunn

Pro

It's about expressing yourself

Laura

Pro

art is more than fun. art is misrepresented way too fucking often. i like art, but only when i make it, or it looks like something i'd make.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

makes me smile

Guarded One

Pro

Art is an expression of a persons soul. Whatever form that Art takes! :) :)

Guarded One

Pro

Art is an expression of a persons soul. Whatever form that Art takes! :) :)

Guarded One

Pro

Art is an expression of one's soul.

charlierosewater

Pro

once, i would have called it "the only sanctuary from a life that isn't 'precious'". today, i see it as people crumpling to the floor of a shopping mall (in a residential district outside of terra haute) from the "problematic" effects of an unidentified airborn toxic event; its the long-awaited inclusion of the lowly eggplant as a legitimate religious icon; its the mindless shooting of puppies in a bath tub;its the mindless shooting of eggplants the moment they become popular cultural icons;its "lying"...which shares the same etymological origin as "construction",viz., "fabrication"; its what drove nietzche,finally,to play the piano with his elbows; its making it through one more goddamn day without provoking a complete stranger into a near-fatal scissor-fight; its that comfortable (albeit deceptive) sense that "alls right with the world"... as you're leafing through "american outdoorsman" in the waiting area of the emergency room where you just admitted your girlfriend who is having the carrot exticated from her ass...

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Pretty pictures: sun, flowers, trees, leaves rocks; slow motion shots of moving water; shots of other matter in even slower motion we take for granted.

Mosquito Christ

Pro

is a hoax

Who wants to know anyway?

Pro

A con is one who tries to distribute their art, and a pro is one who actually does.

Amanda

Pro

Pro or Con, art is, undeniably.

Mess_iah

Pro

If it pleases the senses, it is worthy of existence.

nothing

Pro

beaty is in the eye of the holder

josiah

Pro

me know no bad art

ThE LiGhT

Pro

imnotacon onimnotac imnotacon imn ot oni mn imn ota aconimnot otaconimn con imn aco ota c ota con !!! on! !! !!!!!!!!!

Shi Juna

Pro

If it keeps my sanity, sure.

Sanna

Pro

it's a way of communicating

Ryan O'Connell

Pro

Art is purdy. It looks neat. And art is an unadulterated forum that can not be used to prove but exhibit traits inherent in our system of living and governing.

mark

Pro

everything is art

Eat Me

Pro

i draw gay porn just to mess with peoples heads (i'm a girl)

the rabbit

Pro

1hsanthr4hmslf

When D. L'Oscar

Con

Many art thru history have been badly damaged. The range of pigpens is astounding. You can search futher by sticking october in a sling and run for the hep waga.

krystal kirby

Con

I am vary good at art.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Picking at the world as I do my nose !

Rose deBoueff

Pro

Try not to ramble?? I find the juxtaposition of the request to explain why am "Pro Art" and the imperative "Try not to ramble" problematic not only in an immediate syntactical sense but in a deeper ontological sense. Puhlllease!!

His Honorable Feces

Pro

Art is not anything in reference to life in that it mirrors all that is.

noah

Con

anti-art (which appears to have taken over the visual art world) is boring

Gav

Pro

Art is Pro, in the sense that a lack of art is a lack of understanding (and hence generation) of the aesthetic, which implies business.

Legion

Pro

Art allows the Legion to perpetuate itself by allowing people to believe that they are individuals, when in fact, we are all.

Renee

Pro

I am very much pro art because it humanizes us. We balance the scientists, who at times can be spirit killers. I went to a lecture a few years ago of Gandhi's grandson. What I remember is this "We have too many men of science and not enough men of God." Well, "God" can be anything. It could be religion, art, charity or anything else. Without art, where will the joy in life be? Who will write our songs? Or paint our pictures? Or make life a little more bearable. Sure, science is good for computer playthings and medicine and the like, but without art, those things don't matter because we wouldn't have anything to live for.

The Panda

Pro

We're all artists It just depends on how you look at it

Yasir Araphat

Pro

Expression of self, social commentary, catharsis, or just art.

Beers

Pro

Art is the perfect excuse to piss people off.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Is.

Zack

Pro

Art is, that's its point and its downfall.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

inside out farts make tar!!!

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is one of the few things that seperate us from other classes of animals. Therefor it dosnt matter what you think about it as long as the art form stirs the thought process.

optional

Pro

Art is that to which an animal such as man is permited to communicate an idea or expression. It is the primary forign language that we use for personal expression,

d.s.

Pro

art is awsome and yet some people pass such crap off as art i mean we want classics not some pop prerenderd shit that's all pretty....i want to feel something in the art i look at and hear...not just on the surface, but down to the core of it. that's all...wait and i want ice cream not to melt on hot days....that's all......for now......

tanya

Con

It's okay, as long as it doesn't expect me to feed it.

Baron Saturday

Con

Art: an excuse to pretend that what you are doing isn't "really" happening... i say "let's start DOING things again"

Bill Corpse

Pro

Art is cool

DR. PROPHET FUTURA

Pro

THE WORLD IS FULL OF JELLY SACKS OF CALCIUM STICKS MASQUERADING AS THE SUPREME EARTHLY SPECIES, WHAT TEY ARE GOOD AT IS CREATING A SEWER OF THE PLANET AND MANUFACTURING BULLSHIT BELIEFS AND PERPETUATING THOSE BELIEFS. ALL THE RELIGIONS WILL BE DISCREDITED, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL DIE FIGHTING THE WAVE TOWARDS REALIZATION THAT ALL RELIGION, BOOKS, CHURSCHES AND PROPHETS ARE MERE FABRICATIONS. HAVE A NICE DAY

Antigone

Pro

it all depends, you have to understand that still life is mockery of life unless changed to suit the "pallette" so to speak of the artist. Art is about expression, imitating some flowers on a table isn't life, its suburbia... decor for some jaded old betty's living room. Pop art, crap... well a lot of it... Warhol... Dali, Hausman, now that's art. Surrealism expresses what is inside, how the fuck can pop art possibly do that. Soup can of the Soul.

snoochypoochy

Pro

Good for showing nuances of society and the human mind.

An Unknown Agent

Con

art represents the past tense. the past tense does not exist.

endless, nameless

Pro

is pro highlighted? i can't tell... it should be. i like art. but only if it's disturbing (rambling commence). if it's not disturbing, it's just propaganda... "better sanitation in the cities, better quality of life... these are good things, but i find it hard to imagine a novel by tolstoy on better sanitation in the citites." yevgeny zamyatin. so there

Roy & Garry

Pro

Garry's good at picture art - I'm more the type who can fix a video machine type artist

Warbeak

Con

Art sucka!!! King Bull Sparra killa youa ifa he knew youa talka abouta art!!! Youa justa lika thosa ***hola mousas thata liva under sparras!!! DIEA!!!!! ANDA TAKA THA ART WITHA YOUA!!!!!!!!!

Al Holloway

Pro

Without art I wouldn't have a job. Without art I couldn't express myself fully. Without art there is no fart.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble ramble

Jesper Larsen

Pro

I like most art, especially that of an older date. I hate most motifs without a readily decipherable form. I find it highly problematic when modern art is juxtaposed to the finding of ontological certainties.

Tragedy Anne

Pro

i am

Zanphador

Pro

Screaming from the naked center of caged being is the essence of nothing. At least I'm faking it.

Shawn

Con

Art Carney? Fuck that guy!

An Unknown Agent

Pro

All art is anti-art, just as the way up is the same as stepping in a river twice. What is problematic (but only in an ontological context) is the juxtaposition of art with anti-art when viewed in conjunction with the subtext that all art harbors. Because of the superstructure of civilization with which each of us is burdened, we no longer feel art instinctually; we now astheticize art because of the inherent dichotomization of modern culture. I like rabbits. We purchase art; we adopt art with the same hushed tones as Reverend Manner in a bank. We perch ass art on our pedestals as an investment. Our investment in art becomes our self expression, unless the art is itself expressionist, in which case it is self impression. My mailman only has one eye, but he can still see fine. The imperialist underpinnings of our culture, with which we struggle every day, and which still inform our view of world, self, and art, brings us to consider art a means of looting ano! ! ! ther culture - and this is precisely the value of art: it brings into being the vandals necessary to paint pictures of dogs playing poker. I have to go now - that soul I stole is wailing to its primitive gods again, and I have to hang up some art - now where is that stone fetish I use to nail stuff up?

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Pretty. Good.

Fleebobnewcut

Pro

I HATE modern art. It's crap.

An Unknown Agent

Con

art is dead, except for construction paper reproduction of goodnight moon, or two dog night, maybe three. bedroom sheets and towels and things cut into strips, or "a man cut into slices" like Henri said henri said henri said

rumpelstilskin

Con

Why not ramble?.........rambling is beautiful..........

god

Con

cons (even ex-cons) make better art than pros anyday.

Opt I. Onal

Con

art is for suckahs

lou-lou

Pro

It releases you to another dimension. Or at least distracts you for a couple of seconds.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is the a way of self-expression and has helped recorded history throughout the world.

girl with arms

Pro

it is my own. we can never really give our selves, right, said james joyce 28% human, we are our own. a totally organic experience.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

ummm, i like art that takes some creativeness and skill. i don't like the idea that you can shit on a canvas and call it art. anything can be art, depends on how deeply you wanna think about it.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art opens the mind to the sixth demension of the soul, what isn't good about that?

nothing

Pro

procon is your game puritan ethical cocksuckerfuckingmonkeycan't cry mamas out to dry fucking why can't you get a piece of that eye socket gone dry.

An Unknown Agent

Con

I am a prisoner of my 'eart.

salvador

Pro

art is no repetitionisnorepetitionisnore

An Unknown Agent

Con

A load of febrile farts trying to palm off their idle crap as valid expression.

Paul

Pro

Jason Pollock was an evolved badger.

Mitch

Pro

Art is nice.

Tim

Con

It just doesn't matter, 'cause all the good looking girls will go out with the guys from Camp Mohawk because they got all the money.

GGDDMAN

Pro

MERZ E DOATZ DOZEY DOATZ

An Unknown Agent

Pro

it lets our creative minds explore what our physical being cannot

Bedavade

Pro

It makes me happy.

Salt Chunk Mary

Con

Try not to be so freaking esoteric.

Steve Billingsworth

Pro

I like naked chicks cause thats like art.

Hydrangea Hard As Steel

Pro

Wanna know what happened? Read a history book. Wanna know what people were REALLY thinking? Look at their art.

Gecko

Pro

Two words: Dave. McKean.

Steven Swain

Pro

Only two choices? Get real.

child502837

Pro

The widening of a connection between world and subconscious via brain, taste, and sense of humor.

Will Weaver

Pro

Bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear, bear...

angry sheepdog marie

Pro

Opaque and human and resiliant enough to survive all the short lived manifestos that suck, parasite like, off it. Please forgive my spelling problems.

sweet pea

Pro

damned best thing since sliced bread. in fact, I bet a mighty creative mind came up with the "sliced bread" bit

M

Pro

Rambling is art.

Leathal Carter

Con

It looks so good you want to eat it. and when you do, some guy decides he wants to cut off his ear. Then when you eat that your girlfreind dumps you.

Meg

Pro

Art is the opiate of the fews. To those few people in the world, or many, who feel the need to express themselves and relieve the tension that is felt when living in such a world as ours. Art is a much needed get away and a profession for those unqualified to do anything else, like me. It helps me to have an outlet for my emotions, a positive one, a place to go when my life goes to hell. I am an artist, but not by choice. Becuase the state of my emotions is always so badly off that I need something to put them in.

dhole phrenetic

Pro

"Art" is, basically, the action. "Art" is not the outcome or the reaction. I enjoy "art" that takes into account the action and the birth (focused or unfocused) that made that action possible.

Ok.

Pro

Only if I like it.

An Unknown Agent

Con

(Tnory not to ramble)

An Unknown Agent

Pro

http://members.tripod.com/sakredchao/chain.htm art is everything.. chainmail is art.. a million little rings brought together into one solid piece of mesh mash. batton down the hatches, we're goin down.

henry

Pro

art has been bastardized by corporate culture and by the art world itself. this sounds like a negative thing but it makes me laugh, and anything that makes me laugh must be good.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

simply with the mechanicals of reason

Jennifer

Pro

I like art but I don't claim to know what it is.

bro gUrU

Pro

If you have to call it art... then it must not be.

Wabidoux(optional)

Pro

ART SAVES! . . . and according to Piet Hein in one of his "GROOKS" entitled --Ars Brevis-- "There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with Artlessness."

Lisa

Pro

Art is good

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Don't know what to say

A.E.R.

Con

Art is assembly line simulacra that is produced by and for the nice, nice boureoise; a consumer machine- in short, philistine.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

I will ramble if i damn well please

An Unknown Agent

Con

It's art if I say it's art. My taste is far superior to yours. I don't care what Nietszsczchehe said.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

art rat tar what is the meant of ontology? astheticize = astheticiSe dichotomization = dichotomiSation

"you're killin' me"

Pro

It's sometimes a madman's only release...and generally that release on paper is really freakin' cool...not that I would know or anything ::grinz evily::

jac beury

Pro

everything is art

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art can not lie, it can be altered to reflect a certain opinion, but it cannot lie

flexiblehorse45

Con

p00-p00-cha-choo

Jack

Con

marcas industrial registrata

An Unknown Agent

Pro

I have no idea what the hell you people are talking about.

blexie

Pro

Art thou serious? Art is my best friend!

Blah blah blah, so forth and sew on, dot dot dot.

Pro

It's really great how it covers up those nasty bare walls and things.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

It's like cool.

Les Miserable

Pro

Art is as ART does

proteus

Con

not post-modern wish but ex--that wish never was and never is and least of all efficient

Angela

Pro

I am consumed by all things that are or should be art, as long as they don't have the pungent odor of dead flies or feces.

Rothu

Pro

Yeah, well, I did Art and sound and performing arts(I'm also a clown) but I love wearing my Cat-hat to pubs to infuriate Right-to-lifers, and in dealing with their frothing screaming rants, I actually have an art of seeing how worked up they can get and then completely calm them down in 10 seconds..

Suatre

Pro

Art is god(dess). Or whatever. Without art I would go (more) insane.

Rachel

Pro

I guess this is were you either say something meaningful & deep or rambel about how we should kill the artists. I'm not a sesoned art critic...but I love surealism and realisim(kind of a contrast,eh?) For me to like it, art can't be chaste or muted...it has to be truth.

jayhughe99

Pro

more importanrly, should it be legalised?

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art's like a sunrise, its never really bad if you look at it for long enough. Well, most art. Some art actually does suck.

Max

Pro

askaadda adddad akak akak tie. Stirng BEAN!

srdja celic

Pro

HJOOoooOOOE HEH HEH HEH heh HEeeeEEEEEEeeeeeeeH

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Except for Duchamp, I know art when I see it. I still say that a urinal stuck to a wall is nothing more than a urinal stuck to a wall.

Hanklin Rutherford Nu

Pro

Tried it, liked it... continue to use it, recommending it to friends seaching for meanings, diversions, escapes from Neilson ratings that promote the development of testosterone-enhanced sitcoms/mello-dramas.

kenneth

Pro

it's cool

Golden pussycat

Pro

Art is a scam. Art exists to give value to $, so that wealthy people don't realize they have wasted their lives in worthless pursuit. art without teh capital A is just fine, though, I make art all the time.

~Z~

Pro

Art is creating an illusion from nothing. If you believe in art, then it exists. If you do not, you have something wrong with you.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is an unrepressible truth

An Unknown Agent

Pro

beauty is in the eye of the beholder

heather

Pro

Depending on the art. If it makes me feel anything, anything at all. It is art. But I am not an artist. Recovering one maybe. Art reminds us that we are more than walking corpses. Art gives students something to do with their time other than drink. Much. Art depicts our emotions; our fears, our desires, our anger, ourselves. The ulimate personality test.

uber-irie

Pro

i love pretense i love it i love it...anyone who thinks substantial is a substantially pretenious word should burn in acid-tainted sprite

Zhara um Nikko

Pro

1st through 20th centuries: ooooohhhhh! ahhhhhh! 20th century: The emporer has no clothes!

An Unknown Agent

Pro

elaborate devices ramble in the brambles

Grunt

Pro

... Exactly

Libbeth

Pro

ramble, ramble, ramble, ramble and all that other bs.

tori

Pro

I go to an art school. what do you think?

CR

Pro

Necessary as air and water to be human.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

I think art is the gourmet food for the mind, imagination, and soul.

balegoth

Pro

I like H.R. Geiger, Dali, Magritte, Escher.

Jenn

Pro

art is a design in words and pictures that have meaning

Tina

Pro

Dude...man..it's like..freedom of expression...'n stuff.

stuart

Pro

art must exist. I met a man the other day, a german. He wouldn't look me in my eyes. He had a plastic hotdog in his hand, I swear. You can claim art doesn't exist and yet there it is

Tuna Colada

Pro

Art is what puts the twinkle in my eye and makes my insides dance

hellcat

Pro

art destructs itself in order for us to live. art is just a word and isn't capable of holding its water.

Spider

Pro

Art is life. Life is art. Amen.

Tom

Con

What isn't art?

my name

Pro

art sucks. that's why i'm pro.

Johnny Flashdance

Pro

Art is like really good and stuff. Dude!

Lucy

Pro

its fun to attempt. when im bored.

michael

Pro

art is the freedom... art is bread... art has to be cheap and everywhere..

jello

Con

too many people think it's someone else's job to make art for them. no one is absolved form this responsibility.(Try not to ramble)

James Rush

Pro

It's interesting, some of it, to say the least. If its recognisable, its good.

Jesse Ransom

Pro

I really do only know what I like.

Duchess

Pro

Huh?

Duchess

Pro

Huh?

Derek

Pro

Art is so good because it has such feeling. Like when you're looking at a picture, and you say "Oh, I've done that before!", or how you can just connect with it. I don't know...

Raziel

Pro

I like it so it must be good... at having sex with crabs

you know when people say "no way hose"?...well i'm hose...ok NO..my name is *Fay* :)

Pro

well it is a nice thing if only people wouldn't make such a big deal about it...this way they could truly enjoy it

An Unknown Agent

Pro

It is a good talking point and covers up wall space.

An Unknown Agent

Con

Everything is cycular, and the circle is the most boring of all shapes.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

It's pretty. Also beautiful.

jamison sechser

Pro

you can identify with it ,the guy who wrote it is a nut, it's a cool psychological perspective

tom

Pro

you can be for or against what you are a part of but it's much more fun to be for what you are by existance (at least for me)

An Unknown Agent

Con

ARTICULATED PEOPLE ART THOU END.

justbob

Pro

yes

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is knowing where to draw the line (copywrite mls99)

(the plastic clown

Pro

(art is my main gig

chris

Con

art is just another way for stupid people to look smart

nicole

Pro

art is meaningful because it allows everyone to express hidden stuff...like symbolism (well, maybe secret signs and symbols).

Bubby

Pro

Are is so fucking cool, I use it all the fucking time.

gianluca

Pro

I was a predicator

I want my Monkeyman

Con

Fetishized into a 'respectable' institution by giving it a title "ART." This removes the "artist" from the human, like a Doctor or a Mechanic. Not everyone is a Doctor, but everyone is an Artist, until you isolate this basic element of humanity as a career or a type of person.

wonk+

Con

art is a con it began with the cave paintings, perhaps even way back when the fist nonzero restmass particle decided to 'express itself' how utterly contrived

An Unknown Agent

Pro

meaow.

Troy

Pro

I'm an artist. How more pro can you get?

j

Pro

this is more involved than i'd anticipated. let the words fall one by one.

whyit

Pro

What the hell do you mean by "ART"?

An Unknown Agent

Pro

as long as it's porno or got naked women and men in it.

ally

Pro

art is the one thing, other then music, that can completely show what someone can feel

BillyMac

Pro

Art can be good employment. My father, the chemical engineer, used to tell me that he was artistic. He had to lay out crude oil content reports in an artistic manner. If that's not art then what is?

Drew Smith

Pro

I love art. My favorite artists include Picasso, Dali, Da Vinci, and Michangelo

benny contagious

Pro

art is good. it is the visual expression of an emotion.

AnN

Pro

Art is good...self expression is nothing but good.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

I am a fire artist. Fireworks Fire is the master, I am the messiah of fire

An Unknown Agent

Pro

There's a cat in the flower pot. Or not.

wolf303

Pro

You can't make me.

Rob Turner

Pro

It opems your "walking over hill and dale" mind to new ideas and realities. Oops I rambles a little.

kelly d.

Pro

i like zucchinis

tim

Pro

my cat fell out of a tree and broke his jaw. The vet was able to put his face back together but now he drools on all of my stuff. i had a book of albrecht durers art once but i think i lost it.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Yes, but is there a nude woman on the cover

filament

Pro

heh. (ask me for the long version sometime. that there was the short version.)

Tonglen Dorje

Pro

A means of expresion which I would like to appropriate for my own ends. I am contented that others accomplish this in my stead. this for me.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

must ramble

An Unknown Agent

Pro

art is pukeing of the brain it is goood to get that stuff out every once in a while in order to insure one's well being. It can be very problematic, to juxtapose octogical art with such ideas.

wobby

Pro

art is an emotion

Sara Elizabeth

Pro

Art is like breathing. You take it in, then let it out. Sometimes it smells bad.

Kumquat1

Pro

A salivating bite into a citrus fruit, in the midst of a meat and potatoes diet.

Lucifer

Pro

Only when it involves obscenity

Genevieve

Pro

I am art, so are you. With one glance, your art lives in the soul of another.

Nickey

Pro

(definetly pro)ABSTARCT THIS BITCH!(artistic enough?)

Andrew A.

Con

It's a catagory like produce or meat or bread.

Jeremy

Pro

Ed Gein was an artist!

Absy

Pro

i like rambling.. uh... art? yes. pretty pictires. and stuff. i like cake

An Unknown Agent

Pro

I'm not here, I am just a figment of your imagination . . . or is it my imagination. Hmmnn.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is putting the things you see and the way you feel in to a medium that others can see too when they try.

kelly

Pro

Pro if it makes you think. Did i ramble?

Johnny Deformed

Pro

Without art, there would be no masturbation

rotorelief

Pro

i particularly like it on fresh tomatoes.

Heather

Pro

Oh, but I like to ramble. I think I'm going to boycott this question, unless you let me ramble. Hmmph.

Nothing Nowhere

Pro

but what is art?

Brian, Stacey, and Benny

Con

Stacey is con, she is the one typing. Brian is pro. Go figure. Benny isn't listening. He says maybe. Hey, he's listening after all. Oops, no rambling? awwwwww.

Haans Bals von gunten

Pro

blah... try not to ramble .. what the never mind that , eyh. Why not Ramble? Robert Walser rambles. I ramble

Annie

Pro

I try to look at what I'm fighting for, not against. Right now, for example, I'm fighting for a cliche little nugget of wisdom.

Alexis

Pro

Nothin wrong wit art. I like art.

Elizabeth

Pro

Yes?

Velevetine@aol.com

Pro

Art is either mundane or a precursor to sex, to everyone but the artist and their immediate family. If it's not erotic or mundane, then you don't get it.

Elpugnaro

Pro

art is the only free expression available to us, unless it's commercialised

An Unknown Agent

Pro

to be sure, Hoss

Artichoke Man

Pro

Shoelaces that are wandering over the underbelly of every conceivable durge of the planet's ecosystem will be held accountable for their crimes against humanity!!!! Without sensible ramifications of the legal system we are nothing more or nothing less than indigenous species forced to smell the vibrations of unilateral misgivings. If you do nothing now you will do nothing in the future.

The Pope

Pro

Garfunkel

Mike

Con

A lot of people who are into art are fags. Except Erin, shes pretty cool, Adams cool too, he does the somersault.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

eh, i only leave it at pro, to sound intellegent.

Don Miguel de Londres

Pro

...but only as a laxative.

Wolf303

Pro

Why be con? Art hurts nobody, and there's a chance that somebody will like it. No negatives - definite positives. I may be wrong.

AT

Pro

Both: art is an expression and a sedative, in one gleeful little package.

David Christian Kennedy

Pro

of course I'm pro-art, it's freakin art, it's everything, without it life would be an emotionless sedative. Everything is an art, heck, my step-dad's an art.

Maudlin

Pro

Is procrastination an art form?

Lone(ly)Ranger

Pro

Art...is bad art.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is. What do you want me to do about it?

paul fiasco

Pro

art is only the precept for what we categorise in the gallery - it subsists a priori.

mooog

Pro

Art is good with cheddar

An Unknown Agent

Pro

I like turtles.

Horatio Hupnagel

Pro

Art is a fine fellow. He may be a little odd, but I think that's part of his, well, not charm, so much as, attraction.

An Unknown Agent

Con

If I want preaching, I'll go to a Rave.

Dozzent E. Quate

Pro

Yeah, I like it when I see it. And oddly enough, I see it when I like to.

mike

Pro

once all the meaninless garbage has been done away with, i think maybe something spec-i-al may come of it. "it" as in art, not the meaningless garbage. duh.

heather

Con

i'll just not elaborate...no such thing as not rambling.

Eugene

Pro

Apotheosis

An Unknown Agent

Pro

A meaningfull living

Sennex D.

Pro

Art is a virus, some people get it, some don't.

Kinbote

Pro

Very very pro.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

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Pablo

Pro

As an "artist" - do I have a choice? (After all I seem to recall choice being referred to as a cruel joke...)

An Unknown Agent

Pro

we need whatever it takes to stimulate, arouse, and/or please us...there has to be some beauty on this shitty voyage.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

art is cool if it is not too sissified.

Mallo

Pro

Art is like an animal, you have to nurture it without smothering it to much and killing it, i think...

Eric

Pro

it is good

Bismark

Pro

I like to make things.

Dave

Con

Let me make an analogy: a kid walks into a pizza restaurant and orders chicken. Wrong, isn't it?

kiwi

Con

There is no Art anymore just technoart with a little bit of rust

Myth

Pro

What is art? My Dad liked velvet pictures of anything, but hated my blacklight posters in the 70's, so I ask what's the difference. Art is like God, esoteric, or like any number of things in the phenomenal world that are wholly subjective (at least in this reality.) I mean some people like Warhol,(personally, I prefer gazing into my kitchen pantry), some like stuff that looks very much to me like something that once graced the bottom of a cage, hey it's your brain, and if you want to have taste these days, you gotta like things that are absolutely meaningless, ugly, formless (reminds me of my ex-wife)...er, ah well anyhow I guess you might have guessed that I have little use for modern art (honey, did I use the Picasso as a birdcage liner?)...essentially, give me an impressionist, or a realist, but leave the zoo cage liners out of my portfolio...they're just a lot of Bosch.

Bored

Pro

is creation but is never random enough and consequentialy is always dead.

sun-ying

Pro

i am elabora-mbling

Pail Edification

Con

art is. . . well, comparable to cheese in that art is made for little to no reason whatsoever excepting of course the inflation of the ego that an "artist" gets when someone purchases their "artwork". "Art", however, seems to be a fairly intricate part of society, besides. For some, "art" is a way of expressing emotion, however cheesy. Without art, there would be chaos and chaos breeds change, and so mayhaps there could stand to be a little change here and again.

Quas

Pro

art, and this is purely a subjective reasoning and treatise, elevates, alleviates, absurdises (no such word) and is what constitutes the difference between us and the great unwashed

Eman Rouy

Con

Life is a con, Art is a reflection of life

Trevor

Pro

Music is art, and music kicks my ass.

R. Smith

Pro

Candy for the eye.

Undine Sarcophogus

Pro

Everything is a pure expression of the universe[?]

Don't you ever call me that again!

Pro

I like art in my home and on my head and in my eye That way I can have an art eye infection You can do it at the circus or on your body, like body paint, like Goldie Hawn. I like gay art and naked art--with Goldie Hawn--in a bath art tub with oatmeal and art cookies.

jim

Con

art shmart.

Ryan of Rosewood

Pro

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Nad Suckmore

Pro

Art can't possibly be a bad thing, especially when it's nude.

Clever, Clever

Pro

I hate art; it is simply a diversion from the importance things in life. Down with art! Take away budget money in public schools! Stop corrupting America's youth. Oh, crap, I have to go check the survey at jelly belly online.

Tom

Pro

Art is Meaning

Vanessa

Pro

I would have to say, I'm for Art. In the general sense, he's okay- I think we should allow him to live.

Christine

Pro

I am an artist who likes pink and green or any other complementary colors. I dig dig repetition and contemporary art work. I use popular images and symbols in my work.(Try not to ramble)

Shoulders Bag

Pro

This/That/Those/It Born in a gallery, a tree grows in Brooklyn. I despise vision. I detest artists' mothers.

Doe, John Doe

Pro

I am all for art- it is the expression that counts.. but good art is always the more pleasing.

An Unknown Agent

Con

its what we want but cant have

killer penguin

Pro

art is like good bread (paraphrased from B&P)

William Cipkala

Pro

This is a probability question, isn't it?

HMS The Pickled Quim

Con

I was walking with a friend with whom I had a continuing ontological debate when we happened by a problematic juxtaposition of light and color. I was informed later that this distressing thing was known as "art." Never again!

TheBlackNight

Pro

Art is an expression of ones self. But if you find yourself to be an perfectionist, then you can't allow yourself to express yourself, in a way in which you are no good at.

dt

Pro

brittle carpenter rose colored cyanide pill bitter through the night

An Unknown Agent

Pro

don't know much, but I know what I like...

Reggaejunkiejew

Pro

Art is a language that we all understand. It's so much easier than one of those damn frickin Spanglish-type languages. Anyway, I like to draw ponies and flowers and butterflies.

(naomi wilson)

Pro

Rambling is art. Although art is never rambling.

An Unknown Agent

Con

I question the assumption that art has ontological significance as problematic, particularly in juxtaposition to the experience of art as art.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

um, painting and drawing. oil paints preferable.

Ms. Nomered

Con

I was eighteen and it had something to do with civil disobedience, disarming a boy with a digereedo, and calling in the Fashion Police. But, art, art's nice on Wednesdays.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Cohen Jones I landed somewhere here something along the lines of center I enhaled a big knot and wound myself again I exploited sight and proving knowing I was alive I find proof too new and it bleeds a thing in the blinking of an eye poofProofpoof sleaze over faith why show me a thing deal in that engaging lies the diety.

coralie

Pro

art is good

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Laughing revelation, choking smoke and pebbles

kenneth frieze

Pro

art to me is a beautiful exscape from the rational world of fuck!

An Unknown Agent

Pro

It doesn't match the drapes.

Mark

Pro

Yes

Kemuri

Pro

artisartisartisarti

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art, said GBS, is whatever you can get away with it. If you can get away with it, why not?

floridaL manthiaS

Con

an output for the failures of the current reality. I never liked this sense of being- I will create my own, but- alas- it's no fun without you, so you should all gather, look, you like? so I will sell my being, worse- make schools in this new 'art', so that others may imitate and make me feel superior, and from this, more comfortable. bLeach. 4

Michael Lane

Con

It makes everything more expensive.

Angelique

Pro

but don't presume to know my definition of such...art can be a muddy smear on the lawn...and who could be against THAT? (except lawn neatniks)

Chemical Geezer

Pro

A book demands several hours of my attention. A film demands approxiamately 2 hours of my attention. A song demands 4 minutes of my attention. A poem demands 2 minutes of my attention. A painting demands 20 seconds of my attention. I am looking for an art form that doesn't waste my time.

john adams

Pro

For Art said onto the world - look at me as i cry, see my bloodied eyes, kiss my softened lips, feel the warmth of my hand, and the hunger of my bite. Never let go, i am a sleeping angel concealed without light.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

My most prized possession is my "Elvis on the Mount of Olives" painting on velvet. Now THAT'S ART!

Folded

Pro

When its raining shit, the best umbrella you can buy is art. - Spider Robinson

Janet

Pro

I love it. I do it. I am an artist.

theresa

Con

Only after all artists and art dealers are evaporated during the object revolution, will art overcome its oppressors and found utopian colonies of peace and love.

Stu (optional) Neville

Pro

I could, but I won't waste your time. At least not until it is demanded of me. That is to say.

plutolar

Con

try trynot trynoto trynotoramble trynotto trynot try t tr try tryn tryno trynot trynott trynotto trynottor trynottora trynottoram trynottoramb trynottorambl trynottoramble

adrian noble

Pro

this is a problematic situation enhanced by my own juxtaposition of ontological thoughts

ase

Pro

art is everthing from the monet on gallery walls to the daisy pattern on top of my comet can to the pyschotic mumbling on subway cars

Rachel

Pro

I like art.....it's so......artistic......

An Unknown Agent

Pro

surealism, deeper into the subcounscious the better

dustbunnysrevenge

Pro

i am an "artist" words "fail me" no example "suffices" "all artists" smoke no "true" artist is sane no "true" artist is unsure of himself no artist is man or woman, but a foreign being playing parasite to the mind and soul of a hapless "victim"-willing

kirsten

Pro

I find art refreshing in the most morbid sence of the word.

Trevor H. VB

Con

i am an artist. that is enough.

The Tolar of Turlington

Pro

(Trynottoramble)arandomdance asnowflake'schance thelastdeadflowerofromance amomentarylapse onthewaytotheapse itistheendofcollapse thosefleetingdots aroundandaround sobluethesky sowentdowntothebeach andallacrossimmoralamerica andthebanneryetwavedyetwhat WHATWHATWHAT! andthedreamsenteringintothesky soblueso...sofirm,sopulleyfact andthere'sadirigiblethere butallgoodthings theyain'twhattheyusetobe ain'twhattheyusetobe andthemomentcollapses ofitsownweightcollapses evenasitishabiticularlyfondseed anditgoesaway goesaway goodbye

raloT divaD

Pro

yeah, right. see my answer to the previous question art and life are the same thing my friendships are my greatest paintings

Velouria

Pro

Ramble on. Art is a word. Art is a postcard i've got in my room that says, "Art is a word" with a naked chick standing there. i like naked people, but only ones where i know who they are.

david tolar

Pro

(Try to ramble) i i am i am a i am a force i am a force of i am a force of nature i am a force of nature. art, therefore, being of value to me in my role as a force of nature, is intrinsically of value to all others under my influence.

R. Mutt

Pro

Art is the exitment of my Oedipus complex.Art is forever the violent imagery of repressed sexuality and the struggling of my mind to reach the perfect state of humanity in the realm of consciousness.

I am not David Tolar

Pro

i spy with my little eye(Try not to ramble). i dream in dreads of golden eyed maggots.i spy with my little eye(Try not to ramble). the passion of the sponge, the freedom of the vulture.i spy with my little eye(Try not to ramble). i dream in dreads of golden eyed maggots.i spy with my little eye(Try not to ramble). in dreams you're mine, all of the time. and why the long pages of empty spaces waiting effortlessly beside the void.i spy with my little eye(Try not to ramble). i dream in dreads of golden eyed maggots.i spy with my little eye(Try not to ramble). the passion of the sponge, the freedom of the vulture.i spy with my little eye(Try not to ramble). i dream in dreads of golden eyed maggots.i spy with my little eye(Try not to ramble).

joan

Pro

art is not very nice. it keeps me awake and makes me hungry. it also makes my feet swell AND it makes me take off my shirt. but i like it.

shimon palmer

Pro

Art is beautiful. I become extremely romantic & sentemental at the mere thought of it racing through my viens with hot erection-causing molten fire. Eureka! Heaven is ours brothers. Follow me into the great flowering Lillies of Haberdashery! Genesis of Ozzymosis! Ozzy Osborne! Fuck him I am way cooler make no mistake about that or else I will be obliged, as usual, to depart.

The Golden Ship Was, Oh! Oh! Oh!

Pro

Everything is is some way or another.

A RAT INVADED WORLD

Pro

yeah, right.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

art is good. everything that is not art is evil.

James

Con

Art is an obstacle to overcome. Matter is our only means of salvation.

JUAN

Pro

ART IS CANDY TO THE MIND (....I THINK?.....)

Derek Greene

Pro

I can't say that I enjoy abstract art that looks like a drunk elephant went crazy in a paint store. I do, however, enjoy SURREAL ART!!

Ken

Con

Art sucks

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Fucking Georgeous

Jerry Schwartz

Pro

It would be better than real life, if real life were not art.

jason cotton

Pro

well i do see things in colors that are not really there but i don't mind because it's pretty anyway

Gonzo

Pro

I am a pro. I con no one. Wait, that play on words has already been used, much more skillfully. Oh well.

Anton Trebelmungen

Pro

It is better to/than. In short, it's better to create whether it is by and/or for an elite or whether it is a skilless attempt to express. To be against art is an unprofitable word game started by artists as a vehicle to promote THEIR art. Art is art, and ZEST is soap.

Jabberwocky

Pro

what is art? are we art? is art art? (who else can quote from saved by the bell 8 years after they last watched it?)

An Unknown Agent

Pro

K afukkin boink

An Unknown Agent

Pro

ithinkithought

Jenafer Herling

Pro

is not traceable

Brett Edwards

Pro

I don't know much about what I like, but I do like Art.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

I am a good person!!

Dalliesque poster - Imposter

Pro

pro any art I can comprehend any other is foreign to me and so is not only lousy but malignantly evil and should be burnt

opheliac

Pro

i'm a pro con artiste extraordinaire.

Chile con Gato

Pro

Try not to get your kilt stuck in the bramble.

mark dolph(optional)

Pro

If we could hook up the vcr to our brain then record our visual thoughts that would be the ultimate art. And possibly our death sentnce.

vest boy

Pro

Love the shit to an accstent

Josh Clemants

Pro

The selfless expression of ones inner most feelings. can find new ways to look at people and things

TanQboy

Con

Art has become the collector plates of our souls. There is no truth in art. There is no beauty in art. There is no humanity in art. Art=$. Nothing more. Art is a business we have failed. I am an artist.

gezzika

Pro

it's a mirror of ourselves

Marc Dunlop

Pro

I'm taking Art History, YOU deal with that paradox.

Ratmoler Hamstak

Pro

I like to paint beautiful things using only the blood of the workers I massacre during my morning escapades. Then I burn the paintings, strip off all extra-skeletal tissue, and let my bones perform a lurid dance.

Dale M Houstman

Pro

I have to at least abide it; I'm a relative. However, it seems to have wandered off somewhere and now only the police can find it.

An Unknown Agent

Con

"art" is inherantly self indulgent garbage created by pretentious assholes who tend to believe that whatever they say has to in some way be so earth shatteringly profound.

dusty poo

Pro

odorless, leaves no discernable stains on face or hands genitilia gently rubbed for good luck and balance

(jamie vermillion)

Con

Art is God in Man.

#65241013

Pro

Art is the oposite of positive, Art is negative backwards. You figure it out.

Ratmoler Hamstak

Con

I subscribe to a philosophy unknown as annihilism. It is inexistentially the taking of nihilism to its illogical conclusion.

Opcional

Pro

YES! NO!

Paul

Pro

Art and artists should be brough out into the street, where they should then be set aflame, thus easily destroying their works, while the fleeing remnants are dispersed with fragmentation grenades and gunfire.

ME

Pro

Beauty is Truth. Truth Beauty. (Or is Beauty the girl who fell in love with the Beast? and Truth whatever you want to believe? I get so confused sometimes...)

AGTEW

Pro

Well, bloodly hell.

Anessa Kali

Pro

Art is what bridges the gaps between beast, man, and God. Art is life translated into living. Art is transcendence.

alex

Pro

Art is what makes all the work worth doing.

hUgo bAll

Pro

Art is cheap mistress... who can as easily betray you as she can make you howl.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

i like art

An Unknown Agent

Con

I THINK ART STINKS, HE NEEDS A BATH AS HE HAS BO

An Unknown Agent

Pro

i like art

An Unknown Agent

Pro

For me it's good..bu does really matter what I think?

st dolores

Pro

i like it dusty

Shelwood Buchanan

Pro

It's purpose is to reflect what little of the mind and being is released in the form of words

Funk-de-la-Funk

Pro

can a culture of ours not function without such a thing? i ask you this in hope that you will give me a nod and two winks! (optional)

Jessica

Pro

All right, I won't ramble. Thank you , ladies and gentlemen (if there are any left) for a chance to express my love of art in front of an international audience. Now, I would like to start by saying that the most relaxing form of art is classical music. Apparently the composers in the old age knew the psychological effects of music on the brain, for they composed music to excite, to stimulate, to quiet, to calm, to make the brain work better, but it all had a purpose. None of the riffraff that gets you nowhere except having wasted several minutes that you get these days. No, the music was art in its finest form. Even you who think classical music is boring have seen firsthand its effects on the brain but are too witless to know it does you good, it is better tha=n a drug .

Andrew

Con

It is an excuse for people to get rich without a proper job - but so is politics

An Unknown Agent

Pro

tickles my fancy.

Fontana Fallopia

Pro

Pro because it is a great suffix and suffix implies erotic asphyxiation and what prostitue wouldn't want to help a friend.(Try not to create)

Voice?

Pro

It scratches my head. I wept, and my tears fed it. He held my hand. I drew it, but without arms. We were once lovely as grass.

Uruboros

Pro

I will do my best. As the Devil's Dictionary states: modern art is the work of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled, to the utterly bewildered. The 19th century masters are ok, though.

muno's teeth

Con

art?

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Stone is a forehead where dreams grieve without curving waters and frozen cypresses. Stone is a shoulder on which to bear Time with trees formed of tears and ribbons and planets Federico Garcia Lorca "Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias"

bruce

Pro

art for art's sake. money for god's sake.

small egg iriwi

Pro

there is nothing all that good or bad about art, and i don't see how it marks a civilation, but i like it

Simone

Pro

Tried. It worked. Art keeps me alive.

Ricky

Pro

I took art in high school. My teacher hated me. It was nice.

lee

Pro

art is good but like most things in life corporate america sells it

An Unknown Agent

Pro

It's good for a laugh now and then, eh?

parsifal

Pro

Care instructions: Hand wash/tumble dry; wash hands/tumble out.

john adams

Pro

Art transcends all, thus in doing so remains only seen through mere mortal portholes; like the fruits of a dangling unreachable mango - both beautiful and pure.

martin.ackroyd

Pro

Leonor Fini, Dali, Meade Lux Lewis,...

Lisa Busch

Pro

Amusing, but only on alternate Thursdays. I eat monkeys. If you overdose on art, drink plenty of milk and call your local poison control center immediately.

An Unknown Agent

Con

Art is primarily a religious pursuit. I don't agree.

r.min

Pro

revulsed w/3d art on the web & perspective in general.

Jeff

Pro

OK

and so it goes

Pro

Its like.

alice

Con

pro creation

I respectfully refuse to answer on the grounds that my answer may tend to incriminate me.

Pro

I don't know anyone named Art. Is Art the guy you've got taking photographs of me? Or maybe the one following me on the childs Green Machine?

laurilaurilaurilauri, egocentric can't spell lauri

Pro

(ramble)

Virgil Clemens

Pro

Art is the imaginings of the great Booger. It is he who places infinite values upon art & forces innocent slugs to lick it every chance they get. Art is also pretty cool if it's found on the side of a Kellogs cereal box.

Aaron

Pro

Art is good. No art is bad.

(agent orange optional)

Pro

hit yu own chin gurble il nut walk that cake...>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>> >>> > >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >> >>> >>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > > > > > > >> >> >> >>> >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > >> >> >> > >> > >> >>> >> >> >> >>> >> >> >>> >> >> >> >>>>>> >> >>> >>>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> > >> >>> > thee abuv wuz sand piper walking in rows.

R. Norman

Pro

My religion is an attempt to popularize art.

The Benevolent General Malarkey

Pro

Hey, we gotta make a buck off the norms somehow, right? What better way to tittilate them with talent they only wish they had.... but then again....hopefully they won't start another inquesition...

Twizter

Pro

I've painted my house before.

B. C. Flooshartz

Pro

(Here's me number two, unlike me number one, or me Avatis Tree.) Art might well be why we're, all of us, here. "here on earth?," you might wonder. The answer is no. It is not here on earth, is it? Art is the noetic influx of rapid-transitional meme-theorizing on the cerebreo-political level. It is a good hot dog, without the crappy relish. In other words art is Tasteful Chaos of Unknown Orgins; TCoUO(tm).

Kenneth Alquist

Pro

i bought a picture once

Jeff Richards

Pro

I'm not a Con, so I must be a Pro.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is good when used sparingly.

Josher Q. Habbittforming

Pro

ART IS

doug jett-case sensitive

Pro

well,it depends on wether or not it coincides with reality or produces a insightful comport on how life is and/or should be.I like art. But, a comprehnsive overveiw must be strived for to reach the singularity of chaos,not just happenstance whim or unreason[err. code-099:122-self important insolence]; dirrection is key as is the future of human existnce.Bassically,refer to the populist manifesto by Larry Ferrlinghetti.

chood

Con

taught in art schools - flies across the earth on gossamer wings - hopelessly professionalised

Nassos

Pro

Its life, its death, its crap, its excellent. Very difficult term to define, no point in trying Just experience it.

M

Pro

Only when it is functional. Surrealism is always functional. Abstraction is not.

WHK

Pro

As an Analyst of the Surreal(not to be confused with critic), I sometimes am called upon to formulate responses to statements made by dead authors. For example: The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. -----Andre Breton, Second Manifesto of Surrealism------- The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd, only to then realize that there is no street, there is no pistol, and there is no crowd. The Gnostic must also then realize that there is no self to perpetrate the event. Dadaists agree that the action is Dada, but that the realization is not Dada. Existentialists acknowledge both the action and the realization, and that they both are absurd, and at the same time disagree with one another and you can't get any more Surreal than that! --------------WHK, No More Surrealistic Manifestos------- Pardon me, was I rambling?

ken

Pro

Epistemological considerations and the extreme skepticism of Hume dictate that art, per se, be considered not as an ontological phenomenon but rather as an unprovable tenet. Or as a piece of buttered toast. What's for breakfast?

tammie

Pro

Not believing in art would be like not believing in a language or culture that already exists like portuguese or Yuppies. What do you mean you don't believe in art; it exists and that makes it wonderful.

This is not optional

Pro

Art is

Troy

Pro

An excellent tool, for the neurotic.

Bamphomet(jimjones)

Pro

art is manipulation of sense organ trance zone legislation for consumption who do they think their pulling down the stairs with the structures that lean and piss in the wind. fuk th elot of em. cheap authority. ha.

flap Jack Charlie

Pro

I like the juxtaposition of this line of that bla bla ect.

JASON

Pro

ART IS THE ONE TRUE POINT IN A PERSON'S LIFE WHEN THEY ARE THE GOD AND THE ART IS THE CREATION, FROM THE CREATION AN IDEA OF GOD CAN BE GLEENED.

William Van Nguyen

Pro

Art is a state of mind. Course some of it is crap, because one person extrapolates meaning from it does not make it art.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

It is an elaborate field where all that is optical is reduced to text. Carnage.

An Unknown Agent

Con

Too many atrocities have been perpetuated in the name of Art. The juxtaposition of pro and con is problematical in an ontological context.

Dhoop

Pro

Espressing beauty through unsual and painful means. Depriving a person of sensual expression through art mediums.

kath

Pro

A pampered whore who nevertheless can give the sweetest pleasure.....

Inca Atahuallpa

Pro

Pick your #2 pencil break it in 4 parts the broken point makes a difference between the medical school and the mortuary career. Anyways, nehmen sie dada.

Rebecca

Pro

From the time I was born, I thought that art was worth rambling about. Therefore and so on, in the tradition of my own babbling self, I would like to eventually say that art is good. I like it.

Still Me

Pro

As a mental stimulus to our society, I think it's marginally better than television. And considering that the alternative is usually something designed by an engineer, I prefer art.

Eric

Pro

Art is a true expression that can be formal or informal, structured or free, or all in one roll. Art can also be anything that has or has not meaning.

Karel Jasper, the 44th Lord Andross

Pro

Subversion wherever and whenever possible.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

ART IS EXPRESSION OF BELEIF, IS FAITH, IS RELIGION, IS LIFE, IS WHO I AM.

Albert Silverman

Con

Ancient Arty-facts are just part of the doctrine of Ancient Authority.

Old Skratch

Con

It's all wank. Maybe that's actually Pro.

Skybird

Pro

Art, like anything else, is what you want to see in it. One person's eye sees one thing and another person's eye sees something else. For me, I'm not too creative therefore, I don't appreciate it.

Gus

Pro

Art is like anything else in life in that it is entirely subjective and can only be used to help if it hurts something else. Therefore art is good for change is good.

none

Pro

A derivative of something Jim Morrison once said... It isn't in the artist ability to create that makes them great. It is in there ability to receive.

Jamie Reid

Con

The problematic juxtaposition of the ontological and the metaphysical in artistic productions makes them nauseating to the discerning while it makes the undiscerning uncontrollably puke. Anti-art and decomposition have the same effect with half the trouble.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

I think it is a spiritual expession of one internal need of creator in creating through creativity.

Naomi

Pro

Anything that's as sick and perverted as art has to be bad for god, country, and the american youth. But it gives me a chance to wear my silk dress, sip white wine and pretend to be bored.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

yes. quite. prefer problematic juxtapostions of severe, ontological works to kumquats.

((echo))

Pro

Art is too imprecise to be illogical,,,

KAZ, occasionally known as (optional) to my closest strangers.

Pro

He's a nice guy for somone whom I hate.

delroy thomas

Pro

art is the anti-vagueness of the vagueness of anti-art

i can't tell enemy spies are watching

Con

it is very scary stuuf so i dont look at it...

Not You or God

Pro

art is what your soul is doing at that very moment

mockingbird franklin

Pro

art is visible soul. of course, i could never bring myself to create art (and what is art? is art art? ;) becos i'm not about to make physical my essence.

some strange girl

Pro

*i sulk in the corner and think about painting the walls outside my apartment* *the neighbours watch and wish they were brave enough to be beautiful* *i think about taking my gun and blowing off their fucking faces* *i can see from my window the yellow paint cracks away and i let it drop to the floor* *the neon lights are shining outside* *maybe i should stay awake..

An Unknown Agent

Pro

It gives you a chance to express your feelings but why who wants to know? Are you all going to come after me and stalk me after I fill this out? Your not allowed to stalk me. Who is watching me now?

Standard Feature

Con

Sucks.

Andrew

Con

Expression is a negative value in the broader context of society. If everybody would just TRY to conform to a set of norms, it would be easier for society to function as the authorities intended all along.

Mrizek

Pro

Art is useful only if it can maintain an audience. Audience love to be entertained. Therefore, art must entertain. Go, Van, go. See Van Gogh.

680869@showme.missouri.edu

Pro

art is an addiction, no less horrible or mind deforming than any drug. The major difference is that those who are not by nature afflicted declare envy and appaud the desperatly enslaved.

James

Pro

Religion is for those who need to be told what is right. Science if for those who want to figure out what is right. Art is for those who know what is right.

Arthur "A" Blank

Pro

Pro fessional or amateur? Jurisdictional or biological? Mindless or mindful?

Ronald Donn

Con

Art is artificial, and artificial is unnatural, and unnatural is civilized, and civilized people are typically very unlikeable.

Laura Baldwin

Pro

I like those baby pictures of the babys dressed like berries and flowers and pot roasts and shit. All other art is made by the communists. Unless, of course, the artist is featured in advertisements for popular clothing companies which sell khaki pants and such

A Vial of Microbes Fighting Amonst Themselves

Pro

Art is a jerk..He's owed me $20 for 6 months now.. Everytime I see him he runs..

Charles Kazimer

Pro

As long as it doesn't pass itself off as Hootie and the Blowfish I don't care. Strike that.... Reverse it.

Olivia

Pro

because i am.

Rev. Stygmata

Con

Art is merely the attempt to reify alienated capitalism in the guise of mimetic creativity. Plus, I have no sense of humor.

Ithica Apa Mach-lean Selfcontradiction

Pro

Er. Art is often quite nice to think about. Sometimes I think art is bullshit. But it's a lot less so than most things.

Tiago Borges da Silva

Pro

is life itself, even without the knowledge. what does it mean? WE CAN'T ESCAPE IT, SO ASSUME AND LIVE IT FULLY!!! Size the day, size the art...

Timothy Daniel Constantine Tolle

Pro

Pro, of course. Because what constitutes "art" is a personal choice. Now who do you know that doesn't like what they like? As Illuminati Primi Butthead said, "I don't like stuff that sucks." Okokokok, I'll have to admit that I will consider some things "art" that I think suck-- the Impressionists are the best example. I hate them. I hate them totally and completely, except in the context of bathrooms. Anyone who likes the Impressionists for anything other than decoration above the toilet in a pastel colored bathroom is utterly and totally deluded. The Impressionists, befitting their proper setting of the bathroom, are crap.

Alan Haley

Pro

Well, since there isn't a 'depends' choice, I'll pick 'Pro'. I'm for art that looks like something, but giant metal sculptures that look like car wrecks and photos of a guy with a bull whip up his ass just don't count as good art to me.

NoMaD the Lost

Pro

art is the bomb....don't go in the basement

An Unknown Agent

Con

people who like art tend to wear berets, have very specific tastes in wine, and order at a restaurant in too great detail (e.g., at a diner, ordering a club ... "on 7 grain, with mayonnaise on the side, it is mayo, isn't it") ... I mean, come on, it's a cluc sandwich ... bastards

Ignatz Maus

Con

When Art is destroyed we will have time to engage in much more productive things. Besides wholesale destruction is ,mmush more funner

Baron Saturday

Con

Is no good now. Whatever happened to cave walls, heiroglyphics, gothic cathedrals, and urinals?

A Humble Heather

Pro

(except for that painting I did in 6th grade of my wretched cat)

An Unknown Agent

Pro

All is Art.

Aliss de Cent

Pro

it's too deep a feeling to be communicated or comprehended..

wendy kroy

Pro

because it's pretty! its uplifting and makes me spiral into a depression from which I can never recover!

can I do that? isn't my what's in a name?name in me?

Pro

It's good.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

mmm

An Unknown Agent

Con

i prefer elaboration to art

Neuronaut

Con

Sentenced 10 years to life.

Airam

Pro

One time a friend told me that he fed his cat hamburger and it threw up.

I should be doing the dishes right now

Pro

(May be lot, not art)

kyal

Con

By even giving something a title such as "art" you instantly defeat the purpose.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Definately extraneous engagements of grape juice with pulp dissimulators and seed eradicators. And it goes without saying jammers and partakers.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

because we have to escape the confines of humanity

An Unknown Agent

Pro

because it's pret-ty.

liz-daddy-dada

Con

it is not art until it sells it is art until it sells

David Magdziarz

Pro

The spirit needs its eyeglasses in order to bear the stench of the debris from the Reagan era.

jebadiah

Pro

my uncle collects; I try to stay interested

ramona w. sparrow (sometimes...)

Pro

(sure...) i consider myself an artist... a "surrealist photographer" to be more specific... i follow no one in particular... i believe in certain theories of Postmodern Deconstructionism... but not all the time... i'm prefer my Territorial Bubble...

Tiffany

Pro

Brings out creativity, which is a definate plus.

Christy

Pro

First, my belief is that there is no such thing as "selling out"; all art is intended to affect people, and any artist is entitled to choose whether to affect the monetary poor but culturally rich minority, the monetary rich but culturally pretentious minority, or the monetary average and culturally deficent majority. How does one live on art alone? Censorship saves us all from real-time performance art; who will save me from HyGrid (tm)? The art of the semi-colon has gone the way of the Medicis.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is nonexistant...

shithead

Pro

)and also when the worm digs its way into my external heart, possibly this is an expression of my need for the world.

Hanes

Con

Moo Clytemnestra. Lest we all be spanked in the chrysanthemum supernova. [Burgurlische Gesselschafft oppresses my lunch, heart-clockers TICK TOCK TICK!]

John la Fournier

Pro

"Sexual identity is part of the collapse of art," says Sartre. Bataille promotes the use of capitalism to challenge archaic perceptions of narrativity. However, Lyotard's analysis of capitalist objectivism suggests that society, surprisingly, has objective value. The subject is contextualised into a postsemiotic paradigm of discourse that includes consciousness as a totality.

William Lee

Pro

I'm always problamatic about my juxstaposed art. thanx.

Ian McDonald

Con

As an amateur (I love everything), I believe in trying to fool all of the people all of the time. As a professional bureaucrat, it is my duty to juxtapose problematic ontologies. Besides, my art is death, the art of the sword, a slashing razor sharp katana and the bellow of a demon. How could any civilized person approve of such a thing? But have you ever tried to cut your own head off? Not an easy thing to do and none of my acquaintances seem up to the task, nor do they have the requisite skills and intestinal fortitude.

AC

Pro

There is a roblematic juxaposition relating to the ontological reference to Pro () Con (). To display it with humor: against suggesting that it can be either/or or neither/nor.

joseph

Pro

Arts are the expression of the Divine by the gifts given from the Divine: The Mind and The Soul

Liggil

Pro

yeah.

Marvin is not my name

Pro

Art is dead. So let's all put up shop. Then we should cry after its wedding, Then decide on what to call Her children.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

why not!

Joshua McFadden

Pro

The only true art is music, which transcends perception. It enables the substantiation of things other than one's being.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Often co-opted by the wealthy. But is it art after that point?

nellybelle

Pro

Ramble til the butchers cut him down

Jack

Con

It's all so human

James M.

Con

Not so much am I Con... I'm just an armature.

unsmooth

Pro

only elaborate ornate has a place, but gaudy is pure. ?/expression is not tempered, it is driven, square, round, objects thrust forward and back to the meaning to be removed revealing the problematic juxtaposition revealing the ontolgical truth .of. the @dichotomization within the meme of modern pocket profundity art is everything, and everything, art

Skeezer Meany

Con

Limiting oneself to a single dimension, the third, is quite boring. Art does nothing but manipulate standard human perceptions of space-time, and who needs that? My dog can do that.

beverly

Pro

who are we without it ???

danozano

Pro

I think it's important to keep the people on their toebones, and who am I to stop the demons from riding their lawn sprinklers through the collective crania of humanity?

aisha

Pro

art is skewed expression of psyche. no that's bullshit. art just is. no-one but you can really appreciate your own art. art cannot be defined.

TekSass

Pro

Art is. That's all there is to it. I've heard people say that art is about money. What about art that no one knows about; is that about money too?

simple servant of the vast countenance

Pro

Art is a complex human emotion. Yearning to be released... Striving to express the dark and random thoughts of the subconcious.

Al

Pro

I have guilt about my unnatural obsession with my buttocks, but who doesn't. I hate it when potato pancakes don't come with both sourcream and applesauce. Contribute to infesting misunderstanding.

Erica

Pro

Nature first...art second... politicians and businessfolk last.

Bill

Pro

Art is everything

Glenn

Pro

I like some, hate some.

Luke

Pro

the Ideology behind surrealism blows me away, Dadaism is cool but not as. Expressionism seemed like fun. Cubism was interesting, landscape is boaring, Renaisance had it's place but was supressive to thought. That's what I think art is.

Ndyja99

Con

to write or to speak is almost inevitably to lie a little. it is an attempt to clothe an intangible in a tangible form; to compress an immeasurable into a mold. and in the act of compression, how the truth is mangled and torn. Anne Murrow Lindberg

Benja

Pro

i enjoy art and scored a 20 for it (may not mean much depending on what country this is)

An Unknown Agent

Con

noc

Brian

Con

Art misses me, or I miss it.

Squirrel

Pro

I like naked women in art.

Citizen Khan

Pro

I enjoy art. A lot.

Karl Marx

Con

[Art] is the sigh of the oppressed creature....it IS the opium of the people, which made this suffering bearable.

myxptlyk

Pro

pro: Art Linkletter con: Art Garfunkel

Technocrat

Pro

tar. rat. tartar.

Chled Chledychledchledchledchledchledchledchledchledchled

Con

Its rots youmg minds with delusions of self importance which will never be acheived. It is a futile cause. It contains a pointless nobility that ultimately fosters life-long stupidity. There is no art anymore. Art is in my domain only, that of histoty/phenomenology. Give up, quit, you dont know what your talking about. Your too pretentious, maybe you shoould start a Pretension Movement.

gerard

Pro

Art makes me feel good, especially when I can point it out to a chick.

Kaos

Pro

the night is blue. a 4:00 manifesto in a 4:30 sky. then the calm spills leaving a clam instead.

Mary "Lucky" Fortuna

Con

almost an ex-con, came this close in the seventies (didn't everybody?) Work hard, not hard enuff to enter the pro circuit - lack killer instinct, retain a scruple or two.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

no one should ever insult such a lovely name.

Jeremiah Seabird

Pro

In the immortal words of Martha Stewart, if one of her assistants would write it for her, "Art is a good thing."

Bumblebee

Pro

Well, if I can't ramble, what the hell am I supposed to do? I mean, think a minute here. The only other thing that I know how to do is bitch about nothing.

andy

Pro

i am in favor of all art which deals solely with reality. when non real elements are added to the piece next to the real ones, i have difficulty enjoying the artwork. one might say that the juxtaposition of ontological subjects to non-ontological subjects proves problematic to my enoyment to a work of art.

honeyed silence

Pro

"you also, sooner or later, will have to throw yourselves into the flame where all your eternal truths will be consumed in a trice like the wings of a moth." (lev shestov)

you

Pro

resounding maybe

Andrew, son of my dad.

Con

Why the hell can't you pick both?

Joyce

Pro

Art is capturing the moment, expressing the essential nowness of the present, a souviener of life and struggles, a way of reaching into the future. Right now, I'm in a phase where I think the only art of value, is abstract art, because art should transcend the humanity that created it. Art, because the walls look so blah without anything on them.

Chris Dunn

Pro

Who can stop it? No one. Is it not the flavor in the soup of life? While action may be life's meat, Art is its savour.

Mahatma H Nobel-Faraday II

Pro

I always try not to ramble. Rambling is for people with beards, chequered shirts and open toed sandals (which are really cruel to toads). Where was I? Oh yes. Art for me serves numerous purposes, many of which are too naughty to be included in a morally upstanding survey such as this.Oh yes. More than something you hang on a wall, eat for supper, grow on trees, etc... it is desperately seeking Susan. (Sarandon maybe? I don't know to tell the truth. But of course, I am lying.)

Kirk McKinlay

Pro

Ar we ther yet? aNothr smal flat objekt iz n Da waa grat difekulte movin it to Da otha.... GREEEN bas... UNSCHEDULED ARRIVAL NO CARRIER

jon Love

Pro

con-artist

Peggy Sue

Pro

Art sucks big farts in bed and he has a little jimmy.

paul

Pro

has its place and should not be worshiped

Yvan Greenberg

Pro

I like eggs, especially scrambled. With bacon.

Pax

Pro

Art is the expectoration forced from one's throat like vomit after one is tied down to God's dinner table because of this realization: those who Feel are greatly outnumbered by those who dont.

M.C. Fine

Pro

Is this a joke?

jarrett

Pro

Tell me and I hear feed me and I grow shoot me and I fall and for some damned reason art could have told you all that and decorated your wall in addition. In other words nevermind your mind just hurry up and wait

jon Love

Con

as a ral and genuine artist I am most surely and coitenly a con-artist

SirDenny

Pro

love it ! love it! love it! life wouldn't be the same without it!

Daniel Nooter

Pro

Degas' Interior: Very good. J.M.W. Turner's Slavers...: Very good. Van Gogh's Sunflowers: Okay, but overrated. Gonzalez-Torres' Petit Palais: Illuminating. Haacke's Broken R.M.: Unnecessary. <Someone>'s Navels: Needs more lint.

An Unknown Agent

Con

Art is self-righteous masturbation.

An Unknown Agent

Pro

Art is life, life is art, to oppose art is to commit suicide and death is such a dark lonely place, especially without any Monet.

Walter Johnson (optional)

Pro

It's what I do, or try to do, and sometimes; well.(Try not to ramble)