Leave it to a dilettante to take up any subject. It is not up to the artist to worry about creating principles. His role is to accentuate what is individualistic, to be interested in what is exceptional. A scientist, regardless of how how much he admires the exceptional, tries to make it unexceptional. That is his job.
Modern man is increasingly interested in the abstract and in the underlying principles.
It wants to familiarize itself with characters and systemize their classification. I believe that if a true writer wants to describe or a painter to paint an apple, it has to be an exceptional apple, worth the effort. The role of literature is to demonstrate the uniqueness of a life being lived. To present this reality in an interesting way is what I call the quintessence of talent. It is important to show simultaneously the exceptional and the common, the national and the universal, the realistic and the mystical.