Like an author of a book, or a film maker these days, you realize that an artist at some stage had spent much of his and her time to translate personal perception and feeling as an image to be painted on paper, wood, or canvas to share with his or her fellow human beings.
Why? Because we humans, even the most reclusive ones, have an overriding need to relate and share our various experiences with other humans on this small planet of ours.
There is also an overriding need to create beauty, to share that around, and to enrich our lives with it.
Whether in literature, cinema, music or painting and drawing, these special people who devote their lives to capturing the sometimes illusive beauty are called artists, by other people, who involve their lives in other occupations.
These more sensitive souls among us are able to be composers, authors, filmmakers and painters, all "artists", whose talent and personal disposition make them suited to spend their lives in these creative professions.
"Someone who practices one of the fine arts, especially painting," is a definition for an artist, given by the Macquarie Dictionary, and also: "Someone who uses the skills of art in their work."
A painting then is, according to the same dictionary: "A picture or pattern, done in paint" and also "the act, art, or work, of someone who paints.
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