All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
Art is not living. It is the use of living.
Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.
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