What is Art?

My friend Chris asked me what art was this morning and that really got me thinking... what is art? I responded to him: art is an unrestricted expression of all the beauty and pain in the world. Beauty without pain is like black without white it cant happen. After thinking about it further i realized that answer is only one fraction of art. Art is everywhere  it is in us it is us it is in every breath we take from the first breath to the last. Art is in the air it is in the ground, art is in the noise and in the silence. There is nothing in life that is not art in some way shape or form. feel free to comment