This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes I think it's the responsibility of the artist to reveal a little more of themselves.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
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.
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
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.