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Someone who turns staring out a window into a billable profession.
means A person who creates art — painting, music, writing, performance, or any craft pursued with skill and imagination.
from From the Latin 'ars' (art, skill, craft), which gave Old French 'artiste,' borrowed into English around the 16th century. For a long stretch it meant any skilled practitioner — including scholars of the liberal 'arts' and even early alchemists — before it narrowed to mean a maker of fine or expressive work. Its root 'ars' is possibly related to a Proto-Indo-European notion of 'fitting together,' a cousin of words like 'arm' and 'article.'
- brain wiring
- Artists' brains show denser neural matter for visual processing.
- survival rate
- Most fame arrives posthumously, when royalties go unenjoyed.
- cave roots
- Humans painted before they farmed, wrote, or built.
- day job
- Many masters worked as butchers, doctors, or tax collectors.
- left hand
- A statistically odd share of artists are lefties.
leonardo da vinci — renaissance painter who created the mona lisa (1503-1519) and the last supper (1495-1498)
pablo picasso — spanish painter who co-founded cubism and created guernica (1937)
michelangelo — italian renaissance sculptor and painter who painted the sistine chapel ceiling (1508-1512)
vincent van gogh — dutch post-impressionist who painted starry night (1889) and cut off his own ear (1888)