An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist - and the writer - reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it.
Among the mysteries of the creative ego is how the transcendence of what artists do is their own response to the darkness of who they are, and the same personal darkness that is at odds with the art is what propels artists to the light of what they create.
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is.
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