The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.
Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.
Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.