representar ou não representar | to represent or not to represent

[Rio de Janeiro, 2011]   ©António Lucas Soares

  Someone decreed:

"(...)

1. An object is a work of visual art only if it is a representation.
2. An image is a representation only if it expresses the artist's thoughts or feelings about what is depicted.
3. Such expression is facilitated by the artist's control over details in an image, and the viewer's subsequent questioning why the details are arranged in the ways that they are.
4. The photographer lacks such control over details (the photographic process is, as noted, a mechanical one), and so the images produced cannot be representations, and so cannot be works of art. (...)"

(Roger Scrutton, 1983, The Aesthetic Understanding: Essays in the Philosophy of Art and Culture.)

I say:

1. emotions are not art;
2. walking is not art;
3. flowered shirts are not art;
4. photoshop altered images are art.