The "You Might Be An Artist If..." Quiz

Are You An Artist?  Take This Simple Quiz:

1) I’ve been called:  sensitive, too sensitive, waaaaay too sensitive, weird, artsy, melodramatic, a big ol’ drama queen, psychic, unique, odd, old-fashioned, eccentric, misguided, special, tolerant of ambiguity, optimistic, viciously self critical, expressive, inventive, a pollyanna, misunderstood, different, deluded, ambitious, contrary, talkative, awake, gifted, diverse, scary, intense, playful, iconoclastic, independent, freaky, unrealistic or just plain crazy.   YES___   NO___

2) I love to turn nothing into something.  YES___   NO___

3) I’m certain that spending 40 hours a week under fluorescent lights actually sucks a person’s soul away.   YES___   NO___

4) A thrift store seems like a world of potential to me.   YES___   NO___

5) I sing along.  YES___   NO___

6) I’ve kept some odd thing, thinking, “Well, I might be able to make something cool out of this someday” and then, one day, I actually did make something cool out of it.   YES___   NO___

7) A new box of magic markers seems like it might contain actual magic.   YES___   NO___

8) I’ve spent hours and hours bringing a project to life while my friends and family became increasingly concerned about my sanity.   YES___   NO___

9) I’ve listened to the lyrics in popular ballads and thought, “I wrote better than that in my 6th grade diary.”   YES___   NO___

10) I have space in my home dedicated to soldering irons, bolts of fabric, scrapbooking supplies, paint, dremels, sewing machines, potter’s wheels, photography equipment, collected monologues, vintage frames, character shoes, rubber stamps and/or skeins of yarn.   YES___   NO___

11) I often think “Why?” and “Why Not?” simultaneously.  YES___   NO___

12) I sometimes wonder whatever happened to “patrons” of the arts.   YES___   NO___

13) I carve mantelpieces, make dolls, crochet doilies, compose poems, paint, cook, sew sock monkeys, make handmade valentines, design lampshades...   YES___   NO___

14) My favorite word is “if,” and my least favorite word is “can’t.”   YES___   NO___

15) I am aghast at the sorry state of arts education in America.   YES___   NO___

16) I think that having a boring full-time job is worse than being unemployed because at least when you’re unemployed you have some time to think for crying out loud.   YES___   NO___

17) The suggestion that I should “teach” or “open a flower shop” or “go to law school” makes me want to scream and throw things.   YES___   NO___

18) I just can’t leave well enough alone.   YES___   NO___

19) I make up stories about people based on the contents of their grocery cart.   YES___   NO___

20) I remember with vivid clarity the first moment I encountered my art form and I knew with a sharp intake of breath what, precisely, I was put on this planet to do.  YES___   NO___

If you have answered “YES” to one or more of these questions...

then sweetheart: You’re An Artist.
 

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Comments

[Denise]

Hi Samantha,

goodness me.... I couldn't sleep, got up about 4am... and was writing all my 'dis-satisfactions' down on a page... in a circular grid!
I've just read your two posts, this one and the one after, I must say it is so refreshingly lovely to find someone who totally gets it! You've made me feel more normal and less upset by these two posts. So thank you very much for that.

xo Denise

[Samantha Bennett]

Hooray for you, Denise!!

You are absolutely NOT alone; not alone in your dis-satisfactions and not alone in your feelings of being not normal (and therefore, alone :)

Good for you for finding a creative way to express your brave, unique self, and for reaching out to the community that totally gets it.

You might like this teleclass I just did yesterday - really fun stuff about figuring out what holds us back from bringing our Big Ideas to light: http://www.getitdoneteleclass.com/summer/
(the recording is waaaay at the bottom of the page)

Stay in touch, OK?