Re: “His concerns and interests are all extremely cont emporary, yet he chose to use a painting technique that was nearly 200 years old. We kept asking him why.”

[Cheerskep]

Artsy6 quotes:

> - In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first
> consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones.
> 
> Fujiwara no Teika
> 
> This rather dismisses Shakespeare who is credited with coining roughly 
1,500 new words.