Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.
I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
All artists are now free to express their own personality.
All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
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.
Not every artist is a role model.
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.