how you began

The Spirit: Why, if you are interested in the country only for the sake of painting it, you’ll never learn to see the country.



The Artist: 

But that’s just how a real artist is interested in the country.



The Spirit: No. You’re forgetting... That was not how you began. Light itself was your first love: you loved to paint only as a means of telling about light... Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him...



-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce