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Humans make art. We just do. It started with directions, then moved on to stories, and writing, but homo sapiens have always drawn things for one reason or another.
Today, art is ever abundant, and some people are obsessed with finding the meaning behind one piece or another. Whenever this happens someone pops up and defies all preconceived notions of art, like the Dadaist Duchamp who signed a urinal and called it art, or Jeff Koons and his giant aluminum balloon dogs and custom designed yachts. Even Andy Warhol, who is now an artistic icon, began as a defiant outcast.
Poets (E.E. Cummings, etc.) and musicians (Elvis, The Beatles, Marylin Manson, etc.) have done the same thing.

So discuss:
The meaning behind famous works of art.
The meaning behind your artwork/music/writing.
Idiots who look think too hard about things.

You know, I don't really like Warhol. I mean, his stuff is good, but his methods I don't agree with. The man had a factory of people that made his artwork for him. There are several artists who still do that and I think it's cheating.
Granted the nature of their artwork is often simply taking popular images and layering them somehow or creating them in a new medium, which is why the factory system works for them.
I guess I just feel like if it didn't come from my own two hands then it's not really mine, you know. If someone helped me make it then I should give them credit, too. The art would be 'ours' not 'mine.'

Agreed. Which is why when I co-op art, I have all the artists listed with it biggrin My signature location is shared with others.

I think that art is one of those unexplainable things. Like trying to explain life. We just do it at one point or another in our lives even if we choose to do it more or not. I sketch and paint often and even write and play music. All art. But getting down and drawing something is special I find because it's like your putting your emotions and thoughts down and illustrate it. For people that can't draw very well, i think that there are parts of them that they still haven't found. Emotions and thoughts still dormant in them.

Agreed!