4. Art is something that moves you

Art is made to move it's audience. Artists create art to try and communicate an emotion or ideal they are feeling to a wider audience.

Arguments made by backers of traditional art will argue that digital art it not 'real art' because of multiple reasons including a monetary value placed on the art work and and the tools used to produce it. 

The costs of traditional art lie in the canvases, paint mediums and tools used to produce the work, costs that can run into the hundreds. Digital work has costs of it's own that often dwarf traditional pieces. These costs include computers, software and various peripherals used to interface with the computer.

One argument put forward is that the programs used to make the art 'do all of the work', because in a traditional medium an artist must use multiple tools and pallets. This argument is simply untrue, while the tools are different, so are the issues that arise from a digital medium. 

Digital art is still produced a brush stroke at a time, layer by layer, observing all of the skills and education presented for a traditional work.

Another argument is that the digital format means there is no original hard copy and the digital artwork is easily multiplied and distributed and a traditional works . This argument goes against the base nature of art, a piece of artwork as a vehicle for expression of emotion and aesthetic value and has no inherent monetary value, so a digital works ability to be distributed widely and with low costs, meeting a wider audience, makes it no less 'art'.

Only when artwork is viewed as a commodity does it have a value, and digital artworks gain other values, like prints of existing traditional art work do for the original.

The truth is, on an artistic basis, Digital art can reach a wider audience,