i like to think about what it would be like to be an artist.
[{"role": "system", "content": "An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only. The term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (less often for actors). \"Artiste\" (the French for artist) is a variant used in English only in this context. Use of the term to describe writers, for example, is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism. Wiktionary defines the noun 'artist' (Singular: artist; Plural: artists) as follows: The Oxford English Dictionary defines the older broad meanings of the term \"artist\":   The Greek word \"techn\u011b\", often translated as \"art,\" implies mastery of any sort of craft. The adjectival Latin form of the word, \"technicus\", became the source of the English words technique, technology, technical. 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. In ancient Greece sculptors and painters were held in low regard, somewhere between freemen and slaves, their work regarded as mere manual labour.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The work I do includes drawing, but I think of myself as more of a communicator than an artist. Others say I *should* call myself that -- but for some reason, it's hard!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Interesting! Well you know, artist can be used to describe creating art, demonstrating and practicing a variety of different things. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Well, and by that definition I am an artist ;-) How about you -- are you creative? Do you have a favorite artist or type of art?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well as the french variation of the word would say, I have a favorite \"artiste\". I like Salvador Dali. Have you ever seen his work? "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ha! Oui oui (and si si!). Surrealism defined. And such an influence, even beyond the canvas. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Ha yes! I love sculptures too. Back in ancient Greece the amazing sculptors were help in low regard. Like between slaves and free people apparently. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I didn't know that -- but unfortunately, it doesn't come as a surprise. Commodities. So weird, isn't it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "yeah... it's kinda sad. The old sculptures were so technical. That word comes from the Latin work \"technicus\"."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Truly great artistry is definitely grounded in technique -- just infused with a touch of the muses! "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Absolutely! Although no muse was defined with the visual arts or sculpture. It really was breathtaking."}]