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   Art is not a quality of things but an activity of man. When art is mentioned, pictures, statues, music, poetry, cathedrals,and so on, naturally come to mind; and the question whether a given picture, for instance, is truly art, which is sometimes put to the supposed expert, would indicate in the questioner a naïve assumption that "art" is some subtle attribute, to be discerned in the picture by people whose training has fitted them to do so. But strictly speaking, pictures, statues, and the like are not art at all but works of art; and art is not a quality discernible in them but an activity of man, the activity, namely, of which such things are the products.
author: Curt John DuCasse, _The Philosophy of Art_
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