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

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

Not only the artist but everyone 'becomes someone else' in becoming someone. One is thought about, thus invented. Or as Steinberg put it with memorable succinc…

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 …