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": "Being an artist seems so cool, but it often doesn't pay well if you aren't really good. Otherwise I might try to become one as a job!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Most become famous after death! They are defined as an individual who creates art, practicing an art or demonstrating an art. Too bad it's not lucrative! "}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's true! Many of them didn't even get to live through their success, what a shame."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Musicians and other performers are often referred to as artist as well."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I agree with that, since music and acting can easily be considered art."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Writers are also referred to artist but it is less common and most likely to be found associated with criticism."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Really? I never considered that. Writing can surely be art for how well it is written."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Wicktionary defines artist as the older meaning of artist. The Greeks used the word \"techne\" which means mastery of a craft and I would definitely agree with that."}]