The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition.
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.