Weitz believed that art can not truly be defined. He states that overtime art keeps changing and evolving, creating new genres that overpass the prior views of what art is. He believes that art should be classified on the basis of ones understanding of the piece of work and its resemblance to the tradition views of what art is. Therefore creating the view that art can not truly be defined, due to the fact that it is constantly evolving. Weitz says that’s art’s “openness” makes a definition impossible because art is constantly changing and evolving. As he says within his work “Art as Indefinable”, “What I am arguing, then, is that the very expansive, adventurous character of art, its ever present changes and novel creations, makes it logically impossible to ensure any set of defining properties.” What he means by this is that art constantly is creating new categories and breaking the traditional ideas of what art actually should be therefore making it impossible to create an exact set of rules in which art can be compared to and defined by.
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