The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.
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.
Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
All art is theft.
Art is an investigation.
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
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.
What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.