Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated – like I didn’t have a community of artists. 834
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. 1.36K
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them. 618
I’m vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you’d get any feedback. 2.27K
Whoever wants to know something about me – as an artist which alone is significant – they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want. 608
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone. 612
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. 569
I’ve always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks. 698
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. 854
