The Artist is a Dissident

No one can shape another into an artist, just as no one can shape another into being a teacher, a preacher or  a great public speaker. These types of personalities are born. You either have it or you don't.
No amount of training can turn someone into a teacher. Mind you, training is good and helpful, but you can teacher-train someone until the cows come home, and you will never be able to put teaching into that individual's heart. A teacher is born with teaching in the blood.
 The same it is with an artist; and I don't mean someone who paints pictures only. An artist is a dancer, a sculptor, a novelist, a playwright, a singer, a musician and perhaps there are others, but the point is clear.
 There is something else about an artist too. Artists are protesters against wrongs done against humanity. I am not claiming that artists are the only ones who do this, but artists are innate protesters against evil. Neither am I saying that there are not artists who do wrong, after all, artists are humans, influenced by environmental conditionings, influences garbage and greed just as persons in  any other sphere of human life.
 During 14th and even into the 16th century artists were imprisoned, exiled and starved. Their works were smashed, burnt and destroyed. In recent times in the middle east, artists have had their carvings crushed to powder. The early missionaries condemned, burned and chopped the wood carvings of Africans sculptors because they were deemed idols; the wicked works of the devil. Salman Rushdie lived under threat of death because of his writings. Artists, however, are somehow fearless in the face of wrong, and really couldn't care less what anyone thinks of their songs, paintings or poetry.