The Artist Becomes What He Is Able to Represent

The artist becomes what he is able to represent in his work. His whole dimension is summed up in what he is able to convert into art. As a man, it is as if he did not exist; he disappears as soon as his body dies. That is why he lives while he creates, he builds himself by making art—everything else is worth to him only as raw material and only if transformed into work.