Art not manipulation

Somewhere along the way we started confusing art with manipulation. That the point was to trick the observer into seeing our brilliance. Then, we tried to define what defines good art for some unknowable reason. Even tried to find a simple meaning for a word that was a meaning. 

Art is available for us to try to communicate an idea that's too big for simple communication. To connect us through the pieces of us that aren't easily explained or calculated. It takes on all sorts of forms. Some of them even look nothing like what we've come to think of as art. But, the minute we start manipulating that, putting our rational brains to it, it ruins it. We all have an artist inside us. The only way to let them out is to release.