The artist experiences and interprets reality largely through the medium of feeling.  This explains why there is so much individuality in art and so little unanimity in contrast with science, which is based more on thought.  The sensitive, imaginative, creative insight of the artist, while related to thought and based on experience, seems to transcend them both in its apprehension and representation of reality.  Great artists have learned to express feeling and to trust it as a meaningful approach to truth.

-Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth (pg. 35)