Contemporary "Art". Is It Really?

This is always and argument that I find myself in when discussing contemporary art.  Is it really art?  When I go to Mass MoCa, yes, I can see many great types of art around.  There are marvelous paintings, provocative and inspirational sculptures, and many things of the like.  However, when I go into some of the other exhibits, I can't help but find myself asking: What the hell is this?  This may just be me, but I don't find random pieces of wood thrown together to be art, nor do I found mounds of house insulation molded to look like giant squashes with a bunch of paper clips, scraps of paper, thumb tacks, and other little hunks of garbage stabbed into it to be considered that.  Above all else, it is very hard for me to call a geometric shape painted, nay, pasted onto a wall to be called art.  The contemporary art world is, to put it lightly, strange.  These ways of "self expression" are, let's face it, ridiculous.  It seems like nowadays, anyone can just take a newspaper or receipts from the grocery store, paste them onto a canvas, frame it, and then get it put into a museum.  If that's the case, then I guess I'm trying to get into the wrong profession.  Why try to spend my entire life writing novels when I can draw a square and have it put on display?

Well, the answer to this is simple: because I'm trying to make real art, and these people are just throwing random crap together and make pseudo-art.  With this, yes, I am saying that, in a way, there is a line between real art and fake art, because, as I have stated before, I believe it takes skill, creativity, sincerity, and passion in order to make real art.  Honestly, I don't care that these people claim that they are expressing their inner most feelings, that's good for them, but if they're going to try and say that throwing a paperclip onto a wall is art, then they have another thing coming.  It is because of this that modern artists, even the genuine, good artists, have a bad reputation.