The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.
Art is the path to being spiritual.
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
However dark, however demanding the realities of existence are, artists provide the lift, the light, the ways to make it through. They help us find the joys and delights, the hopes we need for our days and hours. I am grateful for their gifts.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.