" An artist, seeks to find order in his life, and to invent ways to put that sense of order in his work as a document of his understanding." An artist in other words, "invents" from the confusion of life
a simplification, a picture with more order than the literal subject apparently has, so as to suggest by analogy a wider coherence throughout life. The artist intuits this "understanding" of life. Art is not science, and isn't content mechanically to record what is objectively verifiable. Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the creation is whole."
