Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent it may be - than the creative process itself, the process of composition.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.
For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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.
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.