The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
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.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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.
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.