What is an artist. I often joke that an artist is somebody who has had something terribly terribly wrong with them. An artist is somebody who has experienced some some sort of discontent with the world around them.And one of my favorite examples of this is the famous American poet Edgar Alan Poe. Po was is now considered to be one of the greatest writers in American literature touching on grotesque and and macob subjects such as death and what have you. But during his time, his writing was never really appr ...