Artists are generally soft-spoken persons who are concerned with their inner visions and images. But that is precisely what makes them feared by any coercive society. For they are the bearers of the human being’s age-old capacity to be insurgent. They love to emerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds. Thus are they the creators of the “uncreated conscience of the race.”
Thus, the artist ‘thinks they are God’. The precise archetype of the devil, creating new forms and sowing seeds of chaos in the masterpiece of God’s order. It’s a tumultuous relationship, but one needs the other.
