Quote

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

Great artists suffer for the people.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.