The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance.
I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'
All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.
There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.
Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego.
This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.
The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.