Why should it be up to any one person to define art? At least as far as everyone else is concerened? Couldn't it be possible for everyone to define art as they see fit? What if the person who designed the McDonald's with the bell-tower felt that it was art? What if he was trying to say something? Just because you don't feel it is art doesn't have to mean that I can't? On the other hand, let's pretend for argument's sake that I didn't feel that the Mona Lisa was art for this that or the other reason. If I honestly believed that would popular opinion make it art to me any more than my belief that said bell-tower made the McDonald's building a piece of art?

I'm not truly advocating any of the above statements, but I am genuinly curious now.