What is an Artist?

It's a difficult question to answer, but I think about it alot. It's especially difficult because an ARTIST is usually defined as such based on a criterion which depends on their concentration. But there's so many different kinds of art. Art is everywhere around us. There's so many mediums. There's dancers, there's MC's, there's painters, there's tattoo artists, COOKS, there's writers, orators even. You can't have a different definition or artist for each medium... The ARTIST remains the same throughout.

This started when I began realizing how many different ARTS I was into. First, let's go into what I KNOW how to do, fairly well: draw, with a pencil. However, alot of times, when I see something that I consider ART, it excites me. I want to understand it, I want to get involved, and learn it. I want to get better at writing lyrics, and if I could write music, that would be even better. I want to learn photography, videography, any type of digital media. I wish I had enough money to be into fashion. What kind of artist am I?

Since art is so incredibly BROAD, to define an ARTIST, I would have to first find a common definition of what ART is.  Art, at it's core is EXPRESSION. Now this EXPRESSION is of emotions, or concepts, or an understanding or perception of something, or whatever may be in the expressor's mind at the time. We all experience the same world, but all interpret it differently, which is what makes one persons expression eternally interesting. Also, another purpose of art is to be pleasing to the observer. Whether it's sight, sound, or TASTE even, it is somehow aesthetically pleasing. And as I run through the various mediums, that seems to be the only common thread held in all of them. So that's what I'll be using as my definition.

This definition offers no restrictions on mediums. 

So an artist, to me, is someone who uses something to express themself somehow, in a way that is pleasing to the senses of the observer. VAGUE, right? I'd have it no other way.

But since I'm an artists, here's a better way of saying it:

Artists are people who make the world beautiful.