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What Is An Artist?

7th October 2018 by Larry G. Maguire 3 Comments

What Is An Artist?

What is an artist? What is art? How is an artist defined and who exactly gets to set the definition? Is everyone an artist like Picasso said or is it that creative genius is reserved for those fortunate enough to be blessed with talent at birth as the ancient Greeks and Romans believed?

Everyone Is An Artist: The Dumb Facebook Comment Got Me Fired Up!

6th August 2017 by Larry G. Maguire Leave a Comment

Everyone Is An Artist

Everyone is an artist, and everyone has the potential to create art in their work if they choose to. But very few of us choose to. For most of us, work is a means to an end. It’s something that we’d rather not do but we do it because we have to. We have made our commitments, primarily to others, and we’ve got to keep them. The goals we have are largely head goals and they are rarely our own.

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