No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.
I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.
It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
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.
There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.