That's about the sum of it. Art provokes you. Art inspires and challenges you. Love it or hate it, art evokes a response borne of passion and provocation. Film is not art.
Film is business.
Filmmakers are not artists. They do not generate generic fodder designed to lure money from the wallets of bovine customers. Art needn't compromise itself for money. But the exchange of money didn't hamper the personal effect of their art, which continue to passionately evoke their private feelings, desires, and fears. Anyone can observe the fruits of Michelangelo, Beethoven, and Shakespeare's labor and find the distinctive mark of an artist.