AR:
Does the quality of art come from know-how?

JH:
Impossible to answer. That is purely subjective. What is know how? It could be a year of research, a flash of intuition or a mistake being caught and looked at and something being right there that inspires a line of thinking …. ( I used to read multiple books simultaneously to try [and] get that trigger in language … also by reading in diagonal and backwards scanning patterns or in totally unrelated areas at once …. Sometimes it led to interesting accidental metaphors and concepts ….. They then lead to an idea for a project or section of text created later ….)