, and she did a very large, like a wall size called a mural. It was an enormous canvas , and it was just of my face. I was making a very funny expression and she painted that, and I thought it was pretty cool. I enjoyed it. But in terms of world famous, no, none. Have you had much experience painting? I mean, I excelled at finger painting when I was a child , but since then, no. It is something that I have reflected on this , that my passion for language and my passion for precision of speech is directly related to how much I wish I could paint or draw. Because if you draw a picture of how you see somebody and you show it to them, there's no ambiguity here's exactly how I see you, how I feel about you. But I don't have that skill. And because of that, I've always tried to develop my vocabulary and my manner of speech in such a way that I could express, like a painting, exactly how I feel about a thing or a person, but they are absolutely linked. If I could draw better, I probably would not have spent as much time studying language . Why do you think people can feel very strong emotions when they look at a painting? I have to imagine the same or a very similar mechanism as to why people feel catharsis when they listen to music. That strikes me very strongly. The catharsis, the feeling of experiencing emotion when listening to music. I have to presume it's the same when people look at art. I don't feel it when I look at art at all, but I feel it quite acutely
