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What makes you an artist?

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What makes you an artist?

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Location: Lancashire, UK
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Created By: dawn hilton
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Marketing yourself on art sites Like Art Review, does it work?
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I have made lots of contacts through Art Review so the answer is in my case is 'YES' I have had three enquiries about commissions from this site and also a booking for my Art Gallery. I think you... Continue

Started by dawn hilton. Last reply by dawn hilton 12 May.

What makes you an artist?
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Why are you an artist? Did you want to be an artist when you were a child? Art did find me when I was 29, I never went looking to become an artist. I recall I went in to a little framing shop in... Continue

Started by dawn hilton. Last reply by Bradley (aka: Oak) 12 May.

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David Vanorbeek Comment by David Vanorbeek 1 day ago
when many people who visit your shows, people who look at your art start calling you an "real" artist, you're an artist
dawn hilton Comment by dawn hilton on 12 May 2008 at 7:18pm
Hi Ezzaldin, I'm not sure where the idea came from, I just asked myself the other night 'what made me an artist' and like Bradley Oak says, its down to History to decide if any of 'US' becomes artists or not.

I want to become an artist the old fashioned way, my way or not at all.x
Bradley   (aka: Oak) Comment by Bradley (aka: Oak) on 12 May 2008 at 6:20pm
Thinking of myself as an artists has always been a bit intimidating. Actually calling myself an artist most often feels like I am boasting. Is it, I wonder, my place to call myself an artist? With this dilemma always making itself known to me, I tend to think about it this way....

I am a painter. History will decide whether or not I am (or was) an artist.

Bradley (a.k.a. Oak)
Hosny Soliman Comment by Hosny Soliman on 11 May 2008 at 8:03pm
Once you say that you are an artist that means that you are still don't know what that word means.
Ekaterina Alexander Comment by Ekaterina Alexander on 11 May 2008 at 1:34am
The gift of God and me, one can have a gift and give up, I feel it is my responsibility to keep painting
ezzaldin shahrori Comment by ezzaldin shahrori on 10 May 2008 at 8:36pm
dawn hilton
can i ask some thing , from where did you have the idea of making this group?
Caruana Anthony Comment by Caruana Anthony on 10 May 2008 at 7:42pm
its the spirit within you that pushes you forward and let your creativity out to be seen
Prem Singh Comment by Prem Singh on 10 May 2008 at 7:03am
"An artist is a man who invented an artist in him"
Said an American Art Critic
Bradley   (aka: Oak) Comment by Bradley (aka: Oak) on 10 May 2008 at 1:40am
When I was just a wee thing, I was sure I was going to be an actor. I followed that dream for years and years. After I completed high school I went to acting school and then off to New York to begin what I was sure was my destiny: a career in the theater. Six years after arriving in New York, and after a rather uncelebrated career, I left the city for a small seaside town called Provincetown on Cape Cod. It didn't take long before fate brought me into the company of one of Provincetown's better known painters: Bonnie Whittingham. Bonnie was to become my mentor and pillar of strength. It was she who told me that I had the hands of a painter and put the brush in my hand. The rest is history.

So it would seem that I always knew I was to be an artist... I just didn't know what sort of artist's life awaited me.

Oak
Amy Cohen Banker Comment by Amy Cohen Banker on 9 May 2008 at 10:49pm
Does it take one to know one? Seriously, everyone said I was
an artist since childhood and then I became one. And I am
fulfilled.
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