A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
A good artist has less time than ideas.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
One kind of artist is always striving to annihilate the past, to make the world anew in each new work, and so to triumph over the dead weight of routine. I am the other kind... who only sees his way forward by standing on the shoulders of those who have already cleared the path ahead.
I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.
Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.
Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
An artist's career always begins tomorrow.