That’s the conclusion I came to at the end of my art education and art career. It’s not a statement I’m thrilled about but one that is more honest than any other I have ever come across. Art is anything. Art is everything. Art is whatever. Pretty liberal thing to say, I know.

I personally believe art is like love. This begs the question: is art, like love, qualitative or quantitative? If only a handful of people perceive something to be art and a majority don’t, does that mean it’s not art? Maybe it’s simply ahead of its time. Maybe that handful of people have no taste or any sense of what art truly is. If I say I madly and truly love my wife but someone out there who gets 10,000 people to say I don’t, does that mean I actually don’t love my wife? Or does that majority know something that I don’t?

What could possibly help validate one’s opinion/perception about art then?

Guidelines.

This is a fairly accurate way of distinguishing between the art vs. porn issue:
Subjects should not be positioned in a manner to suggest sexual penetration, genital to genital contact, genital to anal contact, oral to genital contact, oral to breast contact or oral to anal contact.