Why Art is for Grown-ass People

“Every Child is born an artist, the problem is remaining an artist when we grow up.” -Pablo Picasso

C. ALLY GUIDA SMITH, photograph edited with digital app.

The word art has a certain, je ne se quoi….connotation. I would love to survey a million people to reveal their initial three associations with this word. I conjecture it would something like the following variations:
Picasso, Crayola, kids.
Perhaps these: Stick figures, museums, “can’t draw.”
But art is so…