To get further philosophical about art, here's a quote I picked up while reading Herman Hesse's "Steppenwolf". It has to do with a manuscript the Steppenwolf character, Harry Haller, has written. Different type of art, but art is art.
"It was not in my power to verify the truth of the experiences related in Haller's manuscript. I have no doubt that they are for the most part ficticious, not, however, in the sense of arbitrary invention. They are rather the deeply lived spiritual events which he has attempted to express by giving them the form of tangible experiences."
[ photograph above: Mosaic Canyon, Death Valley National Park, 2003 ]
