It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.
The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.