history: I have always wish I could make it as some sort of an artist.
knowledge: An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art.
response: Oh hey, very cool!  Would you prefer to create art, practise the arts, or demonstrate an art?
history: I have always wish I could make it as some sort of an artist.
Oh hey, very cool!  Would you prefer to create art, practise the arts, or demonstrate an art?
Oh I want to make art, but I'm not terribly creative.   Do you know anything else about the word "artist?"   I didn't kow it had three meanings like that.
knowledge: The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only.
response: Sure!  The word artist is most commonly used as a practitioner of the visual arts.
history: I have always wish I could make it as some sort of an artist.
Oh hey, very cool!  Would you prefer to create art, practise the arts, or demonstrate an art?
Oh I want to make art, but I'm not terribly creative.   Do you know anything else about the word "artist?"   I didn't kow it had three meanings like that.
Sure!  The word artist is most commonly used as a practitioner of the visual arts.
What else can you tell me about artists?
knowledge: The term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (less often for actors).
response: Well the term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for performers and musicians.
history: I have always wish I could make it as some sort of an artist.
Oh hey, very cool!  Would you prefer to create art, practise the arts, or demonstrate an art?
Oh I want to make art, but I'm not terribly creative.   Do you know anything else about the word "artist?"   I didn't kow it had three meanings like that.
Sure!  The word artist is most commonly used as a practitioner of the visual arts.
What else can you tell me about artists?
Well the term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for performers and musicians.
Interesting. So like a singer, dancer, or band I am guessing.
knowledge: Use of the term to describe writers, for example, is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism.
response: Yup.  In fact the use of the term to describe writers, for example, is valid, but less common.
history: I have always wish I could make it as some sort of an artist.
Oh hey, very cool!  Would you prefer to create art, practise the arts, or demonstrate an art?
Oh I want to make art, but I'm not terribly creative.   Do you know anything else about the word "artist?"   I didn't kow it had three meanings like that.
Sure!  The word artist is most commonly used as a practitioner of the visual arts.
What else can you tell me about artists?
Well the term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for performers and musicians.
Interesting. So like a singer, dancer, or band I am guessing.
Yup.  In fact the use of the term to describe writers, for example, is valid, but less common.
I forget how many occupations are considered artists.
knowledge: In Greek culture each of the nine Muses oversaw a different field of human creation:  No muse was identified with the visual arts of painting and sculpture.
response: Yup, and in Greek culture each of the nine Muses oversaw a different field of human creation!