When can I start calling myself an artist?

What’re the pre-requisites?

This is a serious question.

You can call yourself an artist when the primary intention of your work is to create art. 

Your Authentic Truth, Authentic Beauty, Provocation, Raw Emotion, Pushing at the edges - (define art as you will)

Ideally tempered with craft, but it is the intention that is the important bit.

I make digital art that explores how we express ourselves together.
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Thank you for this answer. Does it mean that an artist is born even before the artist even creates anything, coz intent starts in the head long before an artwork is made?

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Oh interesting 🤔 yes I believe that is the case

you shouldnt worry about labels others put or not on you.

I get it but the Imposter syndrome is brutal, especially because we're hanging out with some of the most defining artists of our generation.

van gogh wasn’t understood on their time by their contemporaries.

only his bro believed in him and his art early on.


put whatever you want to create out there.

let other worry about labelling and classification.

as creators isnt our job to make sense of our creations, we leqve that to our audiences

Thanks for the Ted talk, exactly what I needed 🫡