An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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I don't think an artist should always know why they gravitate toward something or someone. You are just drawn to things, and that's OK.
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.
Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.
An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.
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