There are many ways to be an artist, just as there are many different kinds of art.
My personal way to be an artist - or what I like to think about it - is mostly trying to put in the world something that makes people feel they are in tune with it. Something that resonates. Of course I don't know if it actually happens. Especially nowadays, with the thousands of images that everyone sees every day. But, okay, this is what I can do. This is the way I do my part.
Probably what I make reaches just a few people. Maybe there are actually just a few people who resonate with my art. It's okay. Everyone just look for those ones(*), in my humble opinion.
(*) While respecting and trying to understand everyone else!
_ Blind writer, bronze, 2002_