For the artist, just as experiences are useful to him as they influence his work, it is wrong to judge their importance as one would do with an ordinary man. Whether art is seen as the representation of reality or the creation of an alternative reality, the artist will put into it what really matters to him, that which, transformed into art, represents to him what is most dear and worthy of this crystallization. Therefore, it will almost always be absurd to want to see as determinant in the artist something that his own work refuses to tell us.