artist

collective noun

light bulb joke

optimism

optimist

pessimism

pessimist

realist

relativism

skepticism

surrealism

physicist

utopian

taxes

Mexico

paying taxes

trivia

is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is 'man' in a higher sense he is 'collective man' one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind. Carl Jung

is one who, for the sake of humanity, is ready to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. Carl Jung

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide. Oscar Wilde

is one for whom the easy part is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear while the hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement. Mark Twain

is, today, one whose task is to find a form that accommodates the mess.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

is a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument. Henry Miller

artist, n.All

artist