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What is an artist? Simple; an artist is one who creates art. Even someone who creates crappy art is an artist, but we should be honest and objective enough to acknowledge that crappy art is indeed crappy.
I'd like to be an artist, but my apartment really isn't set up for it. I have plenty of room as far as square footage is concerned, but the layout is all wrong for me to have some sort of art area. I'm looking for a house to buy, though, so this problem should be solved sooner or later.
I took two years of art classes in high school, and one semester of art in college. I hated art classes because they are just that: classes. They exist for the purpose of teaching students how to create art. This really sucks for me, since I don't like being told what to draw or how. The only reason I took art classes in high school is because I thought it would give me free time to draw and paint whatever I wanted, which wasn't really the case. By the time I got to college, I knew that I would hate art class, but I took it because it fulfilled a unit requirement.
After two and a half years of art class, I ended up with exactly two pieces of work that I decided were worth saving. One was a picture of Henry Rollins and the other was a picture of Chris Cornell. Both were done with white charcoal pencil on black paper and were pretty good considering they were done by a 16/17 year old with little formal art training.
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"I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice." - Friedrich Hayek
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