But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster.
I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.
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.
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.