What does it mean to be an artist ?

An artist is a person who express a particular skill through thoughts ,imagination and creativity

 

@Keithmuchina, being an artist in all its multiplicities of characteristics and talents, is among the most demanding of all demands that we can make of ourselves. We have entered a universe of complexity and simplicity, discovery and delusion. It will never finish. It will never be entirely revealed. It will never be completed. It will continue for as long as we nourish the idea of wanting to reveal the truth through interpretation or creation.
A composer friend once told me of a dream he had. In the dream he imagined and heard distinctly a symphony he had written. It was magnificent. Greater than anything he had ever conceived of before and as he woke he could still hear it in his ears and his imagination. He sat at his desk to write and preserve this deluge of ideas and sounds, only to discover that he didn’t know how to record them, and finally the energy from the dream dissipated and he was left with silence. An artists should have the courage to fail gloriously in his/her quest, and to continue on nonetheless. The artist after all does not have as his goal perfection, but a glimpse of the truth.

 

An artist is a person that uses a certain art to perfection. By art, I mean portery, music, construction and even weaving.

 

I think an artist is the most luckiest person in the world. The art of an artist makes him different from the rest of the world. Artist can express himself in a unique way through his art.

Every good artist does have a goal in his life and that goal is to excel himself in whatever form of art he or she is engaged in.Many artists see there art as a medium to serve the Almighty. For them there art, is there God .