If a man wants to be an artist, he must never look at pictures.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.
I don't worry about whether anyone knows anything about art.
If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.
Every man is an artist.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.