What distinguishes an artist from a technician? Which is a photographer?
Does the artist create beauty where none existed before, while a photographer just identifies and illuminates beauty that was already there?
When I say "artist" I mean somebody truly creative, not just a painter who records what he sees, or *shudder* mass-produces illustrations of cottages surrounded by flowers, and in the case of Kinkade, agrees to paint a picture for you with colors chosen to harmonize with your room's furniture.
Poets and musicians produce beauty and are also artists in the sense that I mean to convey, the ability to create beauty.
2007-03-26
07:15:03
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