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People tend to equate an artist with a hobbyist who daubs paint on a canvas or plays around with lumps of clay of a Sunday. An artist's creative drive is on all the time, always considering new angles to simple and complex things and situations. Artists do not think outside the box, for artists there is no box. If you put an artist in a box, you kill them, or at least their creativity and probably their spirituality. If you have a problem that needs a solution, you should ask an artist to participate in the problem-solving process.