The Artist's Secret
"Yes, now come closer and listen well: in my experience, I've seen something common to all great artists, regardless of whatever medium they work in, that makes them so great—something they all excel at and have a habit of doing that seems to exhume creativity, prolificness, authenticity, and even their spiritual inertia which we crave for ourselves—and I dare say it's plain for us to see and doesn't take an especially discerning keenness to spot, yet it's a specific something so critical to creation that even our Maker testifies to it when molding mountains and pouring oceans and whisking a desert's amber sands—indeed, as I think about, it appears to trump even genius in birthing greatness, which your dull-eyed friend here ought to sing praises for—success waits for you yet, loaf, if you but imbibe this secret I am set to share with the same intent you do that pint: they make art.”