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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.

There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, 'Goodness, if I could paint like the Danish Golden Age painters, the early 19th century painters, the way they could paint a landscape - absolutely beautiful.'

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

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.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

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.