While touring a Salvador Dali exhibit, I came across a page of his work that he had done while in High School..it was a collection of stick figures showing their gestures and some were very sophisitcated in that they showed a very close attention to the 'humanity' of the gesture...very advanced and sensitive...I was soooo impressed by it that I focused intensly on one particular series and was sucked into the mind of the artist as the observation of the gesture happened..I became one with the mind of the artist, the observer, the drawer of the gesture!!...I realized, in a flash, that there is only one artist and that we can access that mind... that consciousness!.. there is only one artist and you can go there when you want. One mind, One Artist...no seperation, no distance...ONE!
It is not that Matisse is an artist and you are not..it is that Matisse often went there...to visit that one mind of the artist...and you can, too...