"The artistic life is simple self-development. Humility in the artist is his frank acceptance of all experiences, just as Love in the artist is simply that sense of Beauty that reveals to the worls its body and its soul.(...) Every single work of art is the fulfilment of a prophecy. For every work of art is the convertion of an idea into an immage."

Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis", 1905

I could not find words better than these.