Steve Jobs Saw Himself as an Artist

A recent interview with Walter Isaacson, author of the first official Steve Jobs biography, reveals that Apple’s late co-founder and visionary saw himself as an artist.

Jobs wasn’t as much of a technician as he was an inventor of beautiful things. Things that just worked. And he did it with style. So much style, in fact, that it became an art to him.

Asked by RIA Novosti whether Jobs compared himself with any poets or musicians, Isaacson said, “He saw himself as an artist, and he had a personality of an artist, he was a perfectionist.”

“And he thought of himself more like Bob Dylan than Bill Gates,” Isaacson continued. “I think he thought of himself as an artist making beautiful things rather than an engineer … He had a passion for perfection which meant he had trouble in compromising which meant that it was sometimes hard to get a product but when it came out, it was beautiful.” Full interview here.