The collecting of them exemplifies an artistic process more genuine than that which occurs in many studios. That is what the painter does, and the poet, and the speculative philosopher, the natural scientist, each in his own way. Into this image and its formation, he places the center of gravity of his emotional life, in order to attain the peace and serenity that he cannot find within the narrow confines of swirling personal experience. In Holton, G. On trying to understand scientific genius. The American Scholar, No. 41, 1971-2.
All children draw.
It is artistic behavior. The constructing of form in response to sensation serves to stabilize experience and permits us to reflect upon that experience. Art is best understood as an innate behavior whereby form is given to experience for purposes of reflection and communication. Art is a purposive behavior. Not until he sets it outside himself or contemplates it, in his aesthetic status, does his personality become distinct from it, and a world appears to him because he has ceased to identify himself with it.