Thinking About the Artist

An artist is a person that is able to express themselves visually, musically, in photography or even in writing.  To be creative an artist needs some sort of inspiration.  That inspiration can come from anything, life experiences, emotions, the environment around you, reality, fantasy etc.  The creative part of these things comes from the artist's view point, this makes their work original.  To be productive, an artist needs an open mind.  An open mind allows someone to see something interesting in something that another might overlook and see as average.  Seeing that opens that artist's perspective to express what they have seen.