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What even is art?

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What the hell is art? And why am I so bad at it? Why can't I draw even a straight line on the AP Physics C exam without redoing it 7 different times? I doubt I'll ever find the answer but maybe that's why all those modern "artists" make the stupidest-looking "art." Maybe they're just so incapable of creating actual works of art that they resort to throwing a bucket of paint onto a canvas or knocking over a sand castle.  Years after nearly getting kicked out of the DIA for being a stupid kid, I finally decided to visit an art museum - The Art Institute of Chicago. I was reminded of why I never went to such museums in the first place. I saw a pretentious snob (Jay Shyn) looking at a seemingly blank canvas while nodding as if he understood some deeper meaning of the world.  White AIDS #3 It was only when I searched up this seemingly blank canvas that I found the real symbolism that the artist was going for. Although greatly obscured (I couldn't see ...