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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.
The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
An artist is his own fault.
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.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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