@Owlor well, allow me to ask questions, then:

- “Art requires the permission of an audience to function.” What do you consider the “function” of art? When is art “functioning”?

- “it can be discussed as something the audience gives you” Who is “you” in this sentence? A dead person? An algorithm? A chimpanzee? A piece of paper? (These are all things which have made or conveyed art.) What qualities do these things have which give them the ability to “receive” this permission?

- “the audience need to agree that what I am doing is in fact that what I am doing is telling a story” Agree? or assert? Same question above regarding who they are agreeing “with”.

- is what you are saying as simple as “art becomes art through the act of interpretation?”