# Like stupid and pompous idiots, who try to define and limit what art is. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 5, 2011, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-stupid-and-pompous-idiots-who-try-to-define-and-limit-what-art-is/602008 "2011-11-05T23:33:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 450
**Author:** ![DHMO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@DHMO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DHMO)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-stupid-and-pompous-idiots-who-try-to-define-and-limit-what-art-is/602008/450 "2011-11-13T18:24:07Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > Apropos dreary and all-too-common threads such as [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=630268), I hereby pit all of the pompous, ignorant, self-important clots such as [this blithering idiot](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14430726&postcount=47) I have not read every post in this thread. I don’t intend to, either. Someone else may have already posted links to [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist's_shit), or [this](http://www.azcentral.com/ent/pop/articles/1213poopart1213.html?&wired). But when, in the OP, **Knorf** posts a link to a post by **sh1bu1** , who asks a perfectly reasonable question, > [@Art truely is in the eye of the beholder](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-truely-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/601879/47): > > So is everything art? Is a turd a piece of art? the answer, quite obviously, is a most emphatic _[YES!!](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1253&bih=720&q=art+excrement&oq=art+excrement&aq=f&aqi=g-v1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=2503l6192l0l8362l13l13l0l5l5l0l248l1584l0.4.4l8l0)_ --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-stupid-and-pompous-idiots-who-try-to-define-and-limit-what-art-is/602008)._