“When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.  He becomes interesting to other people.  He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding.  Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it, and shows there are more pages possible.”

Snow in New York, 1902, National Gallery of Art