“An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and probably contrary mind, driven by mysterious passions for which another word is neurosis. In getting from point A to point B, the neurotic goes via point Q. It's in that roundabout that people are either completely crippled and hopeless in life, or highly creative.” PeopleMenMindArtistPassionIndividualCreativeTalentIndependentDrivenContraryMysteriousHopelessPeculiarUnusualSensibilityNeuroticNeurosisCrippled Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life.” WayArtSpiritualArtistBornSecretExistenceMaterialsArt IsGainsMysteriousWorks Of ArtSpiritual LifeDefiniteCasual Book:Concerning the spiritual in art Source: Concerning the spiritual in art
“The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.” WayArtistCreativeStrangePursueMysteriousInnocenceUnconsciousMysterious Ways Author:Dorothy L. Sayers