of you, it’s environmental, it’s invisible. If you’re 
going to study the invisible then you have to have 
a definite set of techniques for making things 
visible. And he gathered all those techniques from 
the arts. This is where the hard work and 
homework comes in.

The artists, he found, are the only people 
dedicated to working in the present. They don’t 
care about the future and they don’t care about 
the past. They spend all their time and all their 
energy training their perceptions, their sensibilities 
and trying to be contemporary, nothing more. An 
artist who wants to be ahead of his or her time is