Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. It is also used in a qualitative sense of a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, an artistic practice.

Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of 'high culture', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography and music — people who use imagination, and talent or skill, to create works that can be judged to have an aesthetic value. Art historians and critics will define as artists those who produce art within a recognised or recognisable discipline.

The term is also used to denote highly skilled people in non-"arts" activities, as well — crafts, medicine, alchemy, mechanics, mathematics, defense (martial arts) and architecture, for example. The designation is applied to illegal activities, like a "scam artist". The term 'artist' could also refer to a con artist.

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RT @Illmillion: #ihaterappers who think they're so good cuz they supposedly "do things other artists don't do", get a life.
Cityboyy (Derez Brown) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:59:20 -0000
RT @Illmillion: #ihaterappers who think they're so good cuz they supposedly "do things other artists don't do", get a life.
@elvisFrEsHley aye u still fuk wit them detroit artists ?
TheRealDaveDoe (Dave Doe) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:10:40 -0000
@elvisFrEsHley aye u still fuk wit them detroit artists ?
Real Gallery will be set up with work by local artists this New Year's Eve - visit http://www.realgalleryaustin.com/firstnightaustin.html
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