The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.
To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.
The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.