The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.
Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.