“All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of Beggars’ Teeth.”*

Is the mark of a great artist that they walk a fine line between genius and insanity?  While the rest of us mere mortals toil in our mediocrity, does the visionary merely summon their muse in bursts of creativity that produce great works in days?  Does their innate, inborn talent supplant the need for hard graft?

I found myself thinking about these questions when I recently visited the Musée d’Orsay’s wonderful exhibition “Van Gogh/Artaud:  The Man Suicided by Society.” 

(more…)