Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.