“Great cathedrals start with bricks, great paintings start with paint, and great novels start with words. No one ever castigated F. Scott Fitzgerald for failing to invent new words – his brilliance lay in how he used the exact same twenty six letters we all use in English. No one ever complained that Picasso failed to invent new colors – his brilliance was in the way he combined colors that already exist to form something new and original. And while Gaudi may have come close, even he didn’t invent new shapes – he “merely” used the existing constraints of three dimensions in ways we’d never seen before.” Les Mckeown, End Malaria

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