artist vs operant

artist

noun
  • A person who is skilled at some activity. 

  • A person who creates art as an occupation. 

  • A person who creates art. 

  • A recording artist. 

operant

noun
  • An operative person or thing. 

  • Any of a class of behaviors that produce consequences by operating (i.e., acting) upon the environment. 

adj
  • That operates to produce an effect. 

How often have the words artist and operant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )