The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.