An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.
The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.
As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.
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.
An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.
You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.
If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.