It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.
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I can tell you from experience that when you get that pent-up and crazed, it can be distracting.
Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.
Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.
Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.
It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
It's great concentrating so hard you feel your brain will explode.
In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.
Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.