Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
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Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.
Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.
There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.
A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.