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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
This raises a question that has perplexed me for most of my life.
Are you not an artist because you don't have the skill to express your creative thoughts, or does just being creative make you an artist, whether you express it or not?
My area of skill is writing, but I have a "feel" for creatively visualizing. I see cool stuff in my mind.
Music - no. I've never imagined a creative sound in my head.
I have a friend with an incredible imagination. He can tell fascinating, engrossing stories right off the top of his head. But he can't write a coherent sentence. To me he is an artist.
I feel blessed that I have an imagination and one skill that lets me express it, but I wish I could draw. I do play around with drawing from the right side of your brain now and then. It provides a different way of looking at the world than most of us left brain engineering types look at it.
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Great questions.
I've always felt art required skill, otherwise it's just a manifestation of imagination. So when, some day, I get the chance to create some sculpture on the scale of Richard Serra using carbon fiber instead of steel, it certainly won't just be some large bolts of fabric set with epoxy.
But then this painting I did years ago using no skill at all, is it art? Or the study in blue? What is that?
