The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined.
All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.
What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.
We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.
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