"The artist has three main purposes. His simplest purpose is to describe the outer world; his next is to express his feelings about the outer world; and his last is to express his feelings about himself." (John Fowles, The Aristos)
"Everyone who enjoys that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. -- Herein lies the difference between them that create and them to enjoy." (Friedrich Nietzsche)