To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.
I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.
We don't know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can't be.