An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.
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.
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.
Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.