A commercial designer and a free flow, free thinking artist?

Can a commercial designer be truly creative or a game changing artist?
Does such a thing actually matter and if so to who?
How do you get experience from both sides of the fence?
So many questions… but what are the really important questions, the best questions, for your idea, project or business?

To my mind, the questions are always different and asking the right questions is probably more important than the answers.

What seems like common wisdom is that getting down to the essence of a problem the real questions, the awkwardness, the getting down to the core questions, finding the nitty gritty and some real hard truths is definitely the most important part of any process that sets out to achieve something new, fresh, challenging, artistic, creative or altogether really special.

I like asking questions.