The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
I'm fed up with being bossed around.
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.