An artist wears his work in place of wounds.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
An artist is his own fault.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?
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.
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.