Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You need a big ego to be an artist.
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
As an artist, what you do represents who you are. Coming from a genuine, honest place - that's what I'm trying to do.
You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.
You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing; otherwise, why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.
The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.
I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.