Vincent van Gogh rightly reported that “the artist's life, and what an artist is . . . that is very curious. Relatively few people know why an artist acts in this way or that.’”  If one could read an artist’s mind--and by “artist” I mean the whole lot--painters, sculptors, musicians, writers--perhaps the resultant brainwave activity could be visualized as shown in the following tag clouds.

Musician’s Tag Cloud
Visual Artist’s Tag Cloud
Author’s Tag Cloud

There, you see?  No difference whatsoever.

Average Joe’s Tag Cloud

Much content and many images (c) by their respective owners.  Some original bits (c) 2011 Tom Willett.  tom@tomwillett.com