This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
I believe the artist has an obligation to society.
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.