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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.
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.
To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful 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.
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.