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 a receptacle for emotions derived from anywhere: from the sky, from the earth, from a piece of paper, from a passing figure, from a spider’s web. This is a spider's web. This is why one must not make a distinction between things. For them there are no aristocratic quarterings. One must take things where one finds them.

Un artiste est par définition un homme habitué au rêve et qui vit parmi des fantômes.

An artist is someone who carries his center within himself. Whoever lacks such a center has to choose some particular leader and mediator outside of himself.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

An artist is a socially unattractive person whom socially attractive people make money out of.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.
That would be you.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

An artist is a bloke who can hold two fundamentally opposing views and still function:

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world.