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Am I An Artist?

This is one of many questions that have haunted me for years.  I even thought about it a few days ago: Am I an artist? There's a well-known term for this line of thinking - Imposter Syndrome.  Feeling that you are not good enough despite having a body of work that makes it clearly evident that you are not a fraud.  I took to rationalizing my pessimism even further. So I asked myself: Am I an Artist or am I a really good technician? Am I being original and authentic in my creative self-expression or am I cherry-picking aesthetic elements from existing creative works of established artists? Thoughts like these have crippled my creative projects time and time again. It has hindered me from even attempting to materialize weird ideas or even sensible concepts.  Is it even possible to be original at all? Are we all remixing copies of copies and taking credit for it? Even though the originality of our creative expression is up for debate, I do believe that we c...