Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down and the getting to the core of what it is that you care about and what you want to say, really.
I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.