<i>modern art = i could do that + yeah, but you didn&#x27;t</i><p>To me, good art is the combination of a couple things: skill and vision.<p>Vision, the intent to express some idea (hopefully interesting) is absolutely needed.  Even if I don&#x27;t understand it, I can respect that someone is trying to make a statement of some kind.<p>Skill, of some sort is also needed for me to call it art. If there was no craft involved in the creation, no practice, no iteration... then I don&#x27;t consider it worthy of my time. Show me something that you can do that I can&#x27;t, basically.<p>If your &quot;art&quot; consists of a couple common items that took all of ten minutes to put together, that is not art to me. You may be making a statement, which is great, but it is not great art.