The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
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.
I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
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.
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist - and the writer - reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting.
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
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.