The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We allow for many more gradations of personality in life than we do in art.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
If you're an artist, it's great to have a knowledge of the business and be educated about that, but you've got to keep the balance right between business and artistry; otherwise, you get cynical.
Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.
Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
I've always believed that the artiste is the one who has his pulse on the society and who, in many ways, represents the conscience of society in terms of engaging standards that we need to live by.
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