AI can be a tool in service of art, not a replacement for it. Just like a camera, a brush, or Photoshop once was. Art isn’t made by technique alone. It’s made by ideas, choices, memory, taste, and lived experience. Today, many artists don’t sell labor they sell vision. They build concepts, worlds, and ways of seeing. And just as not everyone with a camera is a photographer, not everyone who uses AI is an artist. AI can speed things up. It can open new doors. It can expand visual language. But meaning, intention, risk, and responsibility still belong to the human. The question was never “AI or no AI.” The question is: do you actually have something to say? That part hasn’t changed.