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A conversation between a subject and an artist about how the artist works:
I said, “It’s difficult for me to imagine how things must appear to you.”
“That’s exactly what I’m trying to do,” he said, “to show how things appear to me.”
“But what,” I asked, “is the relation between your vision, the way things appear to you, and the technique that you have at your disposal to translate that vision into something which is visible to others?”
“That’s the whole drama,” he said. “I don’t have such a technique.”
From A Giacometti Portrait by James Lord (excerpted from Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer by Peter Turchi)
That reminds me of a line from the book Art and Fear: Vision is always ahead of execution.
Ain’t that the truth. It’s so hard to get those grand visions from our minds and onto paper. Maybe more practice will help.