what is "art"?

What I believe that makes somthing art is time and effort. Something that looks like time was put into it and also expresses how you feel about what you have created. It also has colors that express your moods. Also art is something you created and not anything you took from someone else and call it your own. What makes art is thinking of making art. You cannot make art without thoughts of making it. You have to use shapes, lines, often times you can or cannot use color but to me those are the main things. Which are also apart of the element of design. Art is different from non-art because you can put anything on a paper and call it art which it isn't, to me it may be just scribbles but to others its art. The scribbles may have meanings to them but that can just be found by over analyzing. The qualitys art must have mainly is effort, time, and it would b best to have a passion for it because you can have true art if your heart is into it.
    The role mood and symbols play in my definition of art is pretty much everything. The mood in art will determine how the person was possibly feeling while he or she was creating their art. If the person is happy the easiest thing for them to create is happy things rather then creating something mad which they are not. If you are mad and you are drawingyou may create something bad or evil or something symbolizing insane or hate which goes with your mood because that is how you feel. Art can be very easy to do when you are in a certain mood because your art will symbolize how you feel.
    The role art plays in my life personally is the art of music and poetry. Music has art that has to do with emotions, struggle, life, hate, love and a lot more. All of that comes from howit plays in my life because music and poetry are somewhat the same and they both express the exact same things. I am around music everyday and poetry I write when mad, sad or happy so these are the main things and art has things to do with emotion, anger, hate, love and so on. Art can teac you more then literal media because I feel literal media is somewhat propaganda and just makes people seem bad when they aren't and also makes some people seem good when they aren't. It gives you one sided opinions on how they think you may like what they say and tell you what they think instead of telling you the truth. Art on the other hand can give you all sides and you get what you want from it instead of being fed things you don't know that is true or not.
    The qualities I will have in making my "art" is having emotion and effort. Without any of that I have nothing in my opinion because with effort mainly is what makes good art. Well if it is my standards of art whatever I do to me may be art and how ever I do it is art to me because I'm going to do it the way I feel art is.
    Honestly I did not go threw anything to find my definition of art but just hard thoughts do to you asking because this is the first time I've been asked about what art is to me so I don't have much experience telling what art is to me. The way I chose what I wanted to look at tosay is art is what I'm mainly around which is graffiti and that is art because time is put into it and thought and also shapes, color, lines, and it symbolizes a lot from what you may look at in it. My ideas and thought on art have remained the same.