Its becoming clear that art arises from images produced in the soul...

Does one need to live a full and integrated life to be able to transmit these images? To give them a life of their own. What power does the true artist wield if they can create a world from their soul? If those who are guided by the mind seek to instruct and guide others, an artist can only let himself be guided. An artist is receptive to such forces and its only in his creativity that he can be active and controlling. He can manipulate and make various forces work together. He can even change the immutable laws of nature at his will or upon his command.

The mind is a servant too. It serves the divine idea. Its language is concepts and formulas. Abstractions and logic. It lives in the realm of ideas. The artist visits these realms for mere seconds and is overwhelmed by the heaviness of the rules that lie in these domains. He feels them to be oppressive and wishes to break free of the restrictions imposed by the mind. He wants to roam and explore his imagination, unencumbered by figures or facts. He is a vagrant or a wayfarer.

Words are like scalpels, for they can dissect you. Words are like a prism where everything is refracted into a million different colors.
I am humbled by the variety of functions, by the versatility of phrases and questions to reveal and shade our imagination.

I am learning to use words like an artist. I am starting to see that they are capable of being arranged in ways that reveal the essence of time and space. They can describe a face or linger upon an object in a way that suggests either eternity or just a moment. With words i can trace your smile across the pages of my desire.