Thinking About The Artist

Who is an artist?
What does it mean to be creative?
In 3 or 4 sentences describe what an artist needs to be productive and creative?

Everyone is in artist if they have there own personal ideas and style on things in life and they love to create. What it means to be creative is to create new ideas that no one has thought of or done before and to also be imaginative and have there own vision. An artists needs to be open minded in order to be creative and productive and be able to try out new things to see what works. They also need to be imaginative and be able to visualize what they are trying to create. Knowledge is also a good aspect in order to stay on track of things and know what you are creating and what else is needed. Lastly i think that personal style is the major aspect of creativity cause it gives you that signature that makes it you and thats what i think creative means is to be unique.