Doug's Daily Meditation

WHAT IS AN ARTIST?

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUIZ

An artist is?

a)      Someone who is anti-social and likes to be and work alone.

b)      Someone who spends all their time at parties.

c)      A brooding social misfit.

d)     Someone who is gruff and likely to embarrass you at a party.

e)      Someone you may have worshipful feelings toward, like Michalengelo, because their work makes you feel warm inside and because you don’t understand how or why they do what they do.

f)       Someone you distrust because you don’t understand how or why they do what they do.

g)      Someone who must have another job to support their art.

h)      Someone who, if they do not have another job, doesn’t really have to work for a living because making art isn’t really working.

i)        Someone you envy because they have “talent” and because you “can’t draw a straight line”.

j)        A pariah.

k)      Someone who takes a lot of drugs, or drinks to excess.

l)        Poor.

m)    Lazy.

n)      An unspeakably rich workaholic like Picasso.

o)      Someone like your aunt in Des Moines, who paints, or used to.

p)      A womanizer.

q)      Crazy and earless.

r)       Someone who doesn’t deserve public assistance because they sometimes take pictures of Christ in urine.

s)       Someone like Andrew Wyeth who does things you just love.

t)       Someone who sucks off the system.

u)      Someone like one of those guys on TV who makes a really great painting in half an hour that looks “just like a picture”.

v)      Someone like Rembrandt who did pictures that are now worth millions.

w)    Someone who lives in a garret and can’t sell their paintings even though they’re beautiful.

x)      Someone who makes ugly things for public places.

y)      Someone who has a God given Gift that should not be wasted.

z)      All of the above.

Correct answer on next page.

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