The wonderful, almost inspired, conception of beauty, passion and anguish transferred by the artist's brush to canvas, as enduring monuments of the immortality of genius, existed in the mind of the artist before a single line of the grand conception was transferred to canvas.
Jacobs discusses the idea that artistic concepts exist in the artist's mind before they are physically created, underscoring the preeminence of thought over execution.
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