transubstantiations of an artist

The Painter "takes his body with him," says Valery. Indeed we cannot imagine how a mind could paint. It is by lending his body to the world that the artist changes the world into paintings. To understand these transubstantiations we must go back to the working, actual body---not the body as a chunk of space or a bundle of functions but that body which is an intertwining of vision and movement.