You paid him for something that you could like He gave you the thing that he loves most
I don’t know and I am sure he doesn’t know what it means when you say you gave your everything to someone or something and now living in grey ?
What he knows his sweats need devotion his emotions need attention Movements of his blood and his fingers need aggression and he have to keep his days and nights his sleeps and dreams in hibernation to pour his everything into something through your imaginations
And when he gave you your something and his everything he could walk away with a smile of satisfaction
Because what you saw and believed as grey He knew that was burnished green covered with cold clouds little white little grey
Although an artist always knows, statues he made will be immersed in water after few days of noise or will be kept somewhere unnoticed, ignored, he always put his life in his creations. Life is not different from art. Even if you know you are going to die, you cannot stop living. Of course life will shows you hard time (little white, little grey) but don’t mistake green (liveliness, happiness) with grey. Sometime a layer of sadness (cold clouds) could made bright green to appear grey.