The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art is all a matter of personality.
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Talent is seductive.
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.
The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.
Art seduces, but does not exploit.
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
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