Quote Originally Posted by Adrian II
OK, so art has something extra that craft doesn't have. What is it?

Put your views to the test. For example, take the famous antique Scythian bronzes. Here is one from the 3rd century BC, a goat attacked by a griffin. Superbly crafted, particularly given the restrictions of the age. But is it art?
My answer would be, why not? Having been trained in art appreciation to some extent, I've become blase to people who self-consciously proclaim themselves as artists. For me, if they wish to be recognised as so, then they'd better make a ruddy good argument for it. My preferred mode of art is the everyday, or things created for the everyday, that nonetheless somehow makes me look at the world in a different way. More often that not, it is extensive experience of or reaching towards the extraordinary that allows one to make the ordinary extraordinary. That, for me, combines craft and art at the highest level.

Hmm, a bit of daoism creeping in there.