Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
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The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.
I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent it may be - than the creative process itself, the process of composition.
What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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