This is beautiful and encapsulates what I was just telling someone: human beings are made to be multi-faceted and creativity, by it's very nature, is multi-modal. We are made to explore and express and be in those contradictions we feel. You can be a lawyer and an artist and a chef and an astronaut if you so wish, who's stopping you?
But then, people bring up the phrase, "Jack of all trades, master of none," and that just doesn't apply to you, in my opinion. We live in a new information age where the learning time for a skill has exponentially reduced--I myself learnt how to paint with Youtube, and books I found on the internet. What this means is that in a single life you can learn so much more than your ancestors ever could in the same time. So, why limit yourself?
Be all the things you want and live in the harmony of your many selves, because as the great Robert A. Heinlein put it, "Specialization is for insects".
( Work in Progress ) My revamp of, Nymphs and Satyr, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1873
Still needs a lot more work , like details, highlights and shading on the skin, before itβs ready for print, but thought I would share where Iβm at so far π€