To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
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.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.
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.
It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.
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.
You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing; otherwise, why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.
Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.
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