As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.
I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.