What am I to do?

What is an artist to discuss? I have been saying that art is uniquely personal to both artist and viewer. But now see that isn’t a good enough answer anymore. It doesn’t provide a sound response to anything nor give direction to the art world itself. The small paragraph regarding Hirst, Koons, and Cattelan raised these particular question. Has the artist become a cynic, a critic, on commentator? The philosopher Bourriaud suggests on page 91? If nothing is off limits and no one can say “HEY! Don’t go there!” and no clear defined rules as to what art is or can be where are we? Where does the value of the artist lay? Or is there any value at all? Has the art world finally hit a point of overload?