How much of art comes from the artist?

I think anything can be considered art. The scribbles my son makes could be a piece of abstract art or a poem. He is interacting with the world and putting it down on paper as much as a 14 month old can.

I think the idea of computer generated poetry is intensely amatuerish. I wouldn't want to read something that was made by an inanimate object, which was programmed by a human, then arranged by someone else. It almost seems like plagiarism to me.

We all have things to communicate and a need to, otherwise there wouldn't be any form of art. Art is soul.

----- "Milk is for babies. When you grow up, you have to drink beer." - Arnold