The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
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.
Every man is an artist.
If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.