artistic life
Life devoted to creativity
The artistic life refers to a way of living organized around creative pursuits—painting, writing, music, theater, and the like.
It suggests not just practicing an art but adopting the lifestyle associated with artists: unconventional hours, bohemian values, prioritizing expression over stability.
She gave up her law career for the artistic life.
The phrase can carry romantic connotations of freedom and authenticity, or skeptical ones suggesting impracticality.
- creativeProducing original ideas
- creative spiritImaginative impulse within
- bohemianArtistic nonconformist type
- left bankDownstream-facing river's port side
- studioCreative professional's workspace
studio apartment · canvas · gallery · art scene · art school · muse · inspiration · tortured genius · palette · expression · passion · avant-garde · aesthetic · culture · vision · imagination · atelier · blank canvas
- lifestylessimple living, minimalism, self-care, healthy eating, communal living
- memoirsmemoir, memoirs, autobiography, autobiographies, personal history
artistic lifebourgeois life
Comfortable, conventional middle-class way
keeping up with the Joneses · settling down · playing it safe
artistic, artist, arts, artistry, artful, artless, artifice, artificial, artificially