Here's another one: art is a product of personhood, which means it's a product of genuine understanding. Pirsig writes : to paint a perfect painting - make yourself perfect, then just paint naturally. That's an interesting thought. And I doubt he means personhood in the wishy washy, let's donate to charity sort of sense, but personhood as in the genuine commitment to quality in all aspects and in understanding foremost. I don't mean just the nuts and bolts business - scales and harmony and structure and all that (which is important) but I'm really trying to get at that Nietzche thing, the assigning of value. That defines a person - the willingness and ability to assign value based on experience.
Additionally, a deficiency in art is not a deficiency in skill, although that is a factor. It's also a deficiency in understanding that nobody is exempt from. In that sense our modern worldview is a bit twisted in its arbitrary division of art from everything else. Life and Art are just two sides of the same coin, and living itself is an art. That's just something I should write down before I forget it.
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