In his lifetime van Gogh painted 486 paintings. It's more fun writing bad books than reading good ones. There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette. Instead, I became a painter, and wound up Picasso.
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
The writer must be willing, above everything else, to take chances, to risk making a fool of himself - or even to risk revealing the fact he is a fool. West Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.