 In his earliest day dreams he instinctively knows that he has chosen the steepest, the most solitary and the most dangerous path; a path which differs from all others in that it is without resting place, guide, or goal; and that his only compensation can be found in his pangs and joys of creation.Other men may be judged by their ability, and success in skillfully penetrating a difficult or an easy close.But the artist aims at an ever receding goal, and if he be judged at all, it must be by his poetical effort of approach to the unattainable."