Usually
Art is associated to the creation of new languages, like new worlds
that the artist "sees” before they are born. It is not
discovery because that implies finding something that already was
there. Instead, “to create” is to produce something out of
nothing, like God.
We
rather like to say that Art transforms. As Gracián said: from
a wasteland art can make a paradise. Without forgetting that a new
seed is sown on land wich has been worked many times. This, the
land, is the path that we share since ancient times, like the
languages that permit us to understand each other.
In
this way, the artist is as much a visionary of the future as an
executor of the past. He would be able
to see equally the garden that
it can be, the paradises that have been and the inherited wasteland. As
Paul Klee says in the enigmatic words of its epigrah: "I
live as much with dead men as with the unborn. A bit closer to the
creation than usual although not close enough." (Denn ich
wohne grad gut bei den Toten wie bei den Ungeborenen. Etwas näher
dem Herzen der Schöpfung als üblich und noch lange nich
nahe genug)