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I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

— Gerald Scarfe

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

— Claude Monet

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

— Anna Deavere Smith

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.

— Anselm Kiefer

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

— Mos Def

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

— Paul Simon

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.

— Saul Steinberg

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

— Federico Fellini

✗Opposing Perspectives

There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.

— Russell Smith

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

— Joseph Conrad

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

— David Hockney