Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.
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.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.