The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent it may be - than the creative process itself, the process of composition.
There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.