What is the difference between an artist and a scientist?

Answer 1

In brief: Artists usually do not try to explain the reasons of anything, they try to show aspects of existence (of whatever). But they always use scientific knowledge to perform their art. Scientists, in contrary, try to collect knowledge about existence and it's consequences, and they try to understand and explain the reasons. (Which, by the way, can afford artistic skills, in some cases.) Both of the above does not exclude the existence of scientists with artistic skills, or artists with a scientific attitude, although I cant give an example for any of those at the moment.