Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.
Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.
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.
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.
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