What does it mean to "think like an artist?"?

The only difference between someone who's good at doing something and an Artist is the Artist has found at least one way to make money at it! Now some make a good living, while others know how to get one piece of art to pay for several lifetimes... and more often than not it is by blazing a new trail where few others have gone before! The key to becoming someone who thinks like an artist is knowing what you like, and how the world responds to those tastes. If you have the average tastes, then find something that touches the soul and sell it! Like the man said though, do not sell the steak, sell the smell of the steak, and the sound of the steak cooking, and the way the steak looks with the perfect side dishes...

ME!

By the way, if you are not an Artist then you are a Starving artist!!!!! and here in can be found the motavation!

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You could even go with a more traditional approach and look it up...

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Learning to think like an artist means:

• Looking at things more closely than most people do.

• Finding beauty in everyday things and situations.

• Making new connections between different things and ideas.

• Going beyond ordinary ways of thinking and doing things.

• Looking at things in different ways in order to generate new perspectives.

• Taking risks and exposing yourself to possible failure.

• Arranging things in new and interesting ways.

• Working hard and at the edge of your potential.

• Persisting where others may give up.

• Concentrating your effort and attention for long periods of time.

• Dreaming and fantasizing about things.

• Using old ideas to create new ideas and ways of seeing things.

• Doing something simply because it's interesting and personally challenging to do.

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Dare Mighty Things ~By Theodore Roosevelt

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In the battle of life, it is not the critic who counts; nor the one who points out how the strong person stumbled, or where the doer of a deed could have done better. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who does actually strive to do deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends oneself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he or she fails, at least fails while daring greatly. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

ME AGAIN!

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No matter if in profession of music, business, medicine, parent, art, mechanic . . . to "think like an artist" is to think creatively, think outside the box, color outside the lines. Live your life or your life will be lived for you.

As far as "having the talent but not the right stuff". By wondering, exploring, asking. . .that's the "right stuff" to build the foundation on for the talents, goals, desires to grow from.

All "right stuff" begins with seed of care, hope, wonder. Seeds take time to grow. "How long, when, where", etc. All have the "right stuff" within them.

It's like singing. You may have the raw talent, but you have little things in your voice to work on before you perfect your talent. I suppose, thinking like an artist would mean that one takes on the mindset needed to making things fall into place so that they can showcase and use those talents.

Every artist thinks in their own way, so I think it means to believe in yourself and realize that after a point talent becomes subjective, so you shouldn't let others tell you that you can't do something, or that what you're doing isn't legitimate.

and as to the how's and when's and where's: I think just by the way you're asking those questions you're thinking like an artist.

My answer to the last question: Practice and self esteem. Who tells me that I don't have this right stuff? Myself, or another person? What is the right stuff, being able to paint like Picasso or being able to paint like David, or Basquiat? I make my own right stuff and funnel it through talent onto the surface. I define reality and as an artist I convince you that it is reality.

"think like an artist" is used to tell you to use your perspective more and be steady, artists use perspective to draw and a steady hand to paint.

If a person has talent but not the right stuff to support putting that talent to use, what has to be learned?

omg.....practice practice practice..... and money....

To think like an artist you truly need to be an artist which is humanly impossible for every living being do to the fact that we're all communists, but to really have that artistic perspective you need to ask questions and be a little crazy sometimes, questions like these include, "What was the artist trying to express in her artwork," "Where's my loofah?" Questions like those, are what makes a person an artist, basically what they're saying is your work isn't good enough and never will be, but there trying to make you get on your computer and ask "What does it mean to "think like an artist?"? on Yahoo Answers, in hope of someone saying, To think like an artist you truly need to be an artist which is humanly impossible for every living being do to the fact that we're all communists, but to really have that artistic perspective you need to ask questions and be a little crazy sometimes, questions like these include, "What was the artist trying to express in her artwork," "Where's my loofah?" Questions like those, are what makes a person an artist, basically what they're saying is your work isn't good enough and never will be, but there trying to make you get on your computer and ask "What does it mean to "think like an artist?"? on Yahoo Answers, in hope of someone saying, there's your answer.

I think thinking like an artist is putting your desires, your deep feelings onto the paper? Artists are usually suffering....and they put that down on paper.

the ability to trust your own Intuition. You've been separated from your gift, probably by the stresses of life.

If you are able to understand anything I say, you are most definitely an artist!

People who don't "get" art don't "get" an artist. It's true.

Hugs to you from Texas!! (((Kitkat)))

Jack and Uncle are of course correct!!

Ah, I am an artist, you know.

Thinking like an artist means thinking of your art without qualification or reservation, and producing your art for the sole reason of the need for expression. Nothing, not criticism, detractors, even lack of success, prevents the artist from producing their art. Do you know how many artists have been remarkably unsuccessful in financial terms during their lifetimes?

Oscar Wilde wrote of "art for art's sake"; for the artist, art is even more than this---they exist for art's sake as well.

Ignore the lines and step out of the box. Forget all the rules you have learned about color and perspectives and accepted standars of expression and begin. There is no rule...there is only redefine