"Where do we draw the line between art and pornography?"

Definitions

Art: "Something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings" Merriam-Webster

Pornography: "Movies, pictures, magazines, etc., that show or describe naked people or sex in a very open and direct way in order to cause sexual excitement" Merriam-Webster

This is a topic I have followed for years. If art is created to show beauty and express a feeling, then wouldn't pornography be considered art? Or as Stephen Colbert asked in the video below, "What is art? Where do we draw the line between art and pornography? And what if that line looks like a butt crack [Shows close-up of Picasso's Les Femmes d'Alger, Version O]?"




Source: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert