Sentir antes de comprender. - Jean Cocteau

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal… unnable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort, the trifling feeling of escape experienced at a masked ball. He distances himself from that which he feels and sees. He invents. He transfigures. He mythifies. He creates. He fancies himself an artist. He imitates, in his small way, the painters he claims are mad.

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

[W]e have a tendency to judge others according to ourselves.