On Weitz...

So the week before vacation I lacked on the blogging - it was a busy week for me. Anyways, here are my thoughts from that week...

Weitz is an interesting man. He hates the question "what is art?" and refuses to actually define art, claiming it is too vast to ever fully define. He says one shouldn't even try to define art; it will just make you look like a fool. I agree with this to a certain degree.

It is understandable that art as a whole may be very difficult to actually define, since there are so many components and there are so many genres of art that must be included. It is also hard to define because since art is so complex, the definition must actually be very broad, and could end up being the definition for many other things as well.

However, I do not think that art can never be defined, and I still think that people should try; it would be silly to just give up.

So my question to you is: why is the world on such a mission to have a definition for art?