Excercise and Experiment

When all is only exercise and experiment, where
questions give more delight than answers, and results are the
lesser of process, we are given a special kind of energy. It's
shifty sand, though. Joy can be stolen because an artist has to
put enough technique under the belt to be simply confident. To
see a painting that never was, as it is to hear a tree falling
in a forest, witness is during, not after. What happens after
is really someone else's business. And one mustn't be fooled,
as I almost was, into thinking that it was some of my business
where they all end up.


From Robert Genn's weekly esoterica.