If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.
What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.