Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.

How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character …

The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.

The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today …