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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5641475" data-attributes="member: 19675">Certainly pointillism (and almost all art forms) have rules...all pointed at creating a piece of art in a particular way.  The rules of the art form help to distinguish one form from another.But the rules of an RPG are not designed to create art.  They are designed to formalize the game of pretend.  To use those rules to create art, you must use those rules in a way that goes beyond the mere playing of the game.As might a photorealist, a pop artist or what have you- but they are still in the mindset of creating a piece of art using the rules of the style they prefer.  There is no question in the artist's mind that he is doing anything else but trying to create a piece of art.Which distinguishes his actions from the actions of the guys who were in my house last week, who if asked what THEY were doing, would say "I'm painting."It is not the declaration in and of itself that makes not-art into art.  It is the conscious decision to make art that makes the change.  What I was describing with that sentence was the state of making that conscious decision to go beyond the rules to create art, not merely saying that statement out loud.</blockquote>