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There are many ways to be a painter – art has many rooms.
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Being a painter does not require one fixed style, method, or subject. The image of art having “many rooms” suggests that creative work offers different paths, each with its own approach. A person can enter art through any of these paths and still genuinely belong as a painter.
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