Being an artist must be pretty cool but creating art must be super tough.
Yeah, i bet! I feel like abstract compositions actually take a lot of thought and time.
You could even argue that writers are artists too but they are up for just as much criticism as other artists.
Right! Writing takes a lot of creativity! Especially organizing information into different paragraphs and sections.
The word is also derived from the french word "artiste".
Wow! Is there a certain time period when art was started?
Artists have been around for so long practicing art that it is hard to ascertain. 
Right! I think of Vincent Van Gogh, he's been famous for a long time!
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only. The term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (less often for actors). "Artiste" (the French for artist) is a variant used in English only in this context; this use is becoming rare. Use of
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