“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts
are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are
converted to art by art itself. Finding one’s voice isn’t just an
emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting
and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration
could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out
of void but out of chaos.” - Lewis Hyde
