Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.
I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.
Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.
A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.