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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

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.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.