Cumulative Record. Chapter 25: Creating the Creative Artist. Quote 2

Why, indeed, do artists paint pictures? The traditional answers are not very helpful. They refer to events supposedly taking place inside the artist himself . . . They represent the artist as a complex person living a dramatic life, and they give him exclusive credit for the beautiful things he creates. But we have not really explained the artist’s achievement in terms of his inner life if we have learned about that life only from his achievements. (p. 380)