greedy and vain

"Artists are very greedy but not necessarily for money. There are so many other ways to get rich. Instead, they're always on the prowl for what I would call 'glimmerings,' the merest suggestion of a shape or an image -- some inkling that might become a painting, sculpture or performance. They're always looking, thinking, collecting, making, arranging, borrowing, experimenting, ruminating. The perpetual barrage of ideas is why they keep notebooks and obsessively self-document in order to hoard every possibility." ~Jeanne Silverthorne