Melissa Davies 12 Nov 2011

I dont agree sorry, for me to create I am anal about what my enviroment is around me, if I have had an off day, if my hands dont want to work with my brain. I can't paint in a dirty house with chores to be done, I can't focus truly if there is chaos around me. If I force my hands to work with my brain being scattered then the piece comes out look like a mess. Then again I could be sitting at work at 6am and end up pretending I am sick because I have a idea in my brain and my hand tells me to hold a paintbrush. So I go home and get lost. Lol I believe a true artist is a person who lets the creative need take hold and a person who constantly dares themselves in all aspects of life.

Anastasia Delattre 17 Nov 2011

TRUE ARTIST? is it a good artist? a reconized artist? somebody who fill bad if he couldn't draw as often as he wishs? somebody who give heart part in his creation?

The thing is that "true" artiste has a differente definition for eachbody and I am sur non of you is wrong!!!

For me, the true artist is a passionate person who works hard to always improve. Definition is true for painter, potery, singer, cooker, danser... Do you go deeply enought in the art?

Minnie Shuler 19 Nov 2011

I have 2 ears Dominic and 2 eyes. Problem is they are all getting older. Ahh..the term true artist has a touch of vanity attached to it to me..maybe it's the mouth that's the problem or just the smell. That which we persist in doing becomes easy to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but our power to do it has increased. As you grow as an artist..it's like becoming free to express what is inside. I struggled for som many years with children and job to create with paint and canvas, pen and pencil and then computer...I like this one...I call it Fly Away.

Minnie Shuler 19 Nov 2011

I call this one live free because I wasn't born free to do this...I desired to do it and worked for that very hard... Like it?

Minnie Shuler 19 Nov 2011

Ah...and here they are together. The methodology of the mathematical fractal produced with the computer along with the passionate bird flying with freedom in all her glory...combined. Just and idea.

Minnie Shuler 19 Nov 2011

Perhaps there are not artists...just people who learn to express themselves in different ways. Nah....I like artists, have losts of them as friends. They are all so different.

Cindy Schnackel 20 Nov 2011

There is a difference between being ABLE to create ("at the drop of a hat" as in the original post from way back), and being in the MOOD to. Mathematicians probably have days they don't feel like doing math; doesn't make them any less a mathematician. I tend to draw every day, with rare exception. And if I'm in a slump, I can and often do pick up a pencil and sketchbook and draw something anyway. Often it gets me in the mood. And a certain amount of self discipline is necessary if you do your art as a job, not a hobby. (Nothing wrong with either, but if you let it get relegated to the back burner due to hobby status too much you will soon stop creating.) But whether I'm in the mood or not, I can draw. I consider myself a true artist because I knew from my earliest memory that I was one. Drawing was a passion and a necessary part of living, a huge part of who I am. If I had to fear that being out of the mood once in awhile meant I was no longer an artist, it'd be crippling. Artists and other professionals are not machines.

Tanna Lee Wells 20 Nov 2011

An artist is an artist whether one or thousands I have to have a picture in my mind sometimes the pixes are there and sometimes they just appear when I see something or hear a song or watch a movie. Then the work is quality. If I force it the finished project isn't quality. Just a thought you might take some classes in figure painting as the arms etc in your painting are not even close to correct.

Mark Peterson 23 Nov 2011

Congratulations that you can turn it on and off like a light switch. I myself am always creative in my mind, however...to put that perspective into a physical visual doesn't always come easy. My mind tires and blocks do occur. Switch or no switch I am always an artist...

Anastasia Delattre 25 Nov 2011

I agree with you Mark Peterson. If you are "true" artiste you are in creative reflexion all the time and you CAN'T swicht off. I have a fun exemple for you: My job is about science creation (as my privite life is about painting creation) and last time I have found the solution of scientific issues during cooking television show... Be creative is finding idea everywhere and so you have to stay "switch on" !!!

Marty Yokawonis 05 Dec 2011

artists can get into a blue funk just like anyone else. Get real if all we really lived for was to create then there wouldn't be so much angst afloat here about things like selling, self promotion, and pricing.

while I can appreciate the sentiment Lilia was expressing - there are seasons when the lamp burns bright with zeal - there are likewise seasons when the light is from a smoldering wick. I am in the throes of a wick smoldering year myself. I will not miss 2011 at all.

Shellton Tremble 05 Dec 2011

Here is a simple principle...especially, since I see this on every artist site: "Creativity can not be taught. Only techniques, mediums, and principles." "Imagination can not be put in a box" Therefore, a 'true artist' is just that...an artist. There are those who try to contemplate being an artist, when you should just "BE".

marlene burns 09 Dec 2011

as soon as it is determined who is a true artist, let's continue with who is a professional artist....

Ayay Sobandi 10 Dec 2011

I paint anytime, anywhere. I don't think too much about what I will paint, and I don't even wait to be in the mood to paint, I just simply put a blank canvas in front of me, grab some colours, and the idea of what to paint usually come while I am actually holding a brush and dab some colours on the canvas.

Diego Sandoval 12 Dec 2011

I'm not an artist... I'm not a light switch... I'm more of a locked door.

I create not destroy...

stephen yochum 22 Dec 2011

sorry but i have to say BS no offence to you and your opinions, but at times i can paint 10 paintings in a few days and another it may take 2 months to just start one, some times i just paint as i go and others i have an idea and i knock it out right then, but then again i may not be a "true artist"?! but if all my works were a paint by number type or the same stuff over and over guess i wouldnt have to think to much and knock out a peice any time i wanted.

Minnie Shuler 24 Dec 2011

Yes Marlene lets do go there true artist? professional artist? artistic genius? then of course we could always try to define art. This one is an untouched mathematical formula. What do you think? art? It wasn't random, I had to work at it and use both sides of me brain.

Pete Miller 24 Dec 2011

I am not an artist..I paint... I don't like being called an artist because to me, the word "artist" represents many qualities in people I don't like...

Minnie Shuler 24 Dec 2011

but Pete, everyone is an artist or didn't you know?

Pete Miller 25 Dec 2011

I was aware that some people choose to think that... and that is completely fine to feel that way. I however do not, nor do I like or allow anyone to call me an artist. I paint because I enjoy it and I put my work online for people to enjoy. If they do or dont that is fine...

But when the question is asked, "Are you a true artist?" That to me is someone who questions their own validity and lacks general self confidence...when in my mind The word artist is so over used it has completely lost its meaning and no longer exists in a relative term of categorization for a specific group of people...