An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.