How can we determine if an art piece is good or bad? How do we define art at all? And what all these has to do with tarot and witchcraft?

In this text, you'll find more questions than answers, and you'll find only opinions (that are my own) not facts.

What makes a 100 year old art piece worth $10 million? Why do we think that the works of Bach, Beethoven, Leonardo, Tolkien and other renowned artists are invaluable, important and good?

Do we have an objective measure, some "art-standard" with which we can decide "Yeah, that's a good art".

What is art anyway? Art needs to be somewhat superfluous, redundant? If, for example, a technology is purely functional then can't it be seen in any way as an artistic thing? A Swiss watch became by now only an art piece, because we don't really need wristwatches anymore? Or to put together a so complicated clockwork was an art back in the days too when wristwatches were really important tools?

I think, art is... what we say it is. And to decide if an artwork is either bad or good, we don't need any art-historian to tell us what we should think about it. Because art is inherently subjective. What do You as the 'observer', the person who is 'engaging' with that artform think about it? Do you like it, dislike it, does it upsets you, stirs you up, is it inspiring you to take some actions?

And what about witchcraft, how would you define it? Would you use the definition from an encyclopedia, from a book of a renowned author, or from you teacher? Ok which encyclopedia, which book, which teacher? Or do you came up with your own definition?

And if you can't (or don't want to) define witchcraft, can you call yourself a witch who practices witchcraft? Will your practice even work if you don't define these things?

Are there any essential characteristics, aspects that ALL witches need to do, achieve, exhibit for to be able to claim "I'm a witch"?

What does do a witch anyway? Are there good, accepted ways to do witchcraft and bad, prohibited practices? If my practice produces the anticipated results, but most aspects of my craft doesn't look like those practices of other - mostly acclaimed - witches I came across with, then do I even practice witchcraft?

What about the tarot? If I'm an intuitive tarot reader who doesn't use any predetermined spreads and associated card meanings then am I doing it wrong?

If I think that tarot is just a card game, or just a tool to project a persons 'inner profile', or just a tool of magical correspondence, or just a tool for diving into the myriad possibilites of future events, then in which case am I wrong with my declaration? Am I wrong/right at all?

As I wrote in the prologue I have more question than answers for you. So, what do You think?