Questions for artists

This question implies that an artist's identity is in part defined by a specific medium.

It indicates an awareness by the questioner that they also have gone through or are going through a process to categorize themselves.

In other words, "How do you do what you do?" This seems like a perfectly reasonable question. Unless you consider your technique to be proprietary and secret.

... or, shouldn't artists really be a little bit humbler? Is the purpose art to have pretty things or to change the way people think and understand the world? A great modernist conundrum.

As the role of the artists becomes more and more professionalized, the specifics of ones academic training seems to play a more central role in defining ones practice.

While this question is open ended, and might solicit any kind of intention from the political to the personal, from effect to affect, from survival to fame and wealth ...

The problem with this question is not that asking about color (or any formal element) as a matter of preference is frivolous, rather, its that preference is a relevant category.

Where do you get your inspiration from? Why is the problem of motivation and context so different for artists than anyone else? If I saw a muse on the road I would shoot it.

Like the question, "How do you earn a living?" this question goes to the both the value of art and art practice to our culture.

There is always a demand to locate one's practice as a triangulation or interpolation between the known.

Asked in this way, the question suggests that one is born an artist and then has to come out. Being an artist is just like being gay (at least by some accounts).