The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.
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.
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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.
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.