What is art?

          We had a very long conversation about this in STAC and there were many viewpoints on what the answer would be.  One that I agree with is from the thoughts of Duchamp, a dadaist who believed that art is whatever you decide it to be.  To him, even a urinal was art since he said it was going to be.  Someone else said something which I'm sure many can relate to.  She said that art is a form of expression, meaning that you can put your feelings into your creation.  My art almost always takes off from my mood.
          Once in the middle of last school year, I was so upset, but what surprised me is how I coped with it.  I am not the best best at drawing.  Actually, I was pretty bad.  I ran upstairs to my bedroom, tears running down my face and I opened up my sketch book and I grabbed a pencil.  I didn't know what I was doing.  I started scribbling a figure and realized I was making a person, but it was all disfigured and looked extremely emotional.
          I showed my drawing to my mother, not sure it was embarrassing or impressive and I could see she got all my emotions out of the picture.  It was the first drawing I did that wasn't pathetic like a child trying to make the smily face look symmetrical.  Every day for months after that, I didn't put my sketch book down.  I loved being able to express myself this way.  It was quiet, relaxed and it helped greatly with my drawing abilites.
          In both fun works, such as Ducamps's, or in more serious works, such as my drawing, these were pieces of art that came from feelings.  They were our forms of expressing our selfs, as is every other true piece of art.  Art is what ever you decide it to be, but the best works are always those that come from your strongest feelings, such as happiness, anger, love, or worry.  As long as you create based on your feelings you don't just get a pretty display, but a piece of art.