“The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must force others to believe in it and therefore share it. It is said that 'the poet does not wish to be understood, but to be believed.” WorldBelieveDoeSaidArtistOrderBeliefForceWishSharePoetUnderstoodVisionariesProvincesTolerable Author:Kenneth Coutts-Smith
“The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one of research, the progressive uncovering of detail.” WorldArtistAcceptingResearchMethodDetailsProgressiveUncovering Author:Kenneth Coutts-Smith