Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
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.
The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
One kind of artist is always striving to annihilate the past, to make the world anew in each new work, and so to triumph over the dead weight of routine. I am the other kind... who only sees his way forward by standing on the shoulders of those who have already cleared the path ahead.
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
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.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
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