The Originalist

"The Field Has Eyes, the Wood Has Ears"
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516)

Next to nothing is known about the life or the thinking of the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. He left behind no diaries or letters. This drawing is the illustration of a proverb meaning "keep quiet about your business." At the top is an inscription--the only statement we have that was written by the artist. It reads: 

"Poor is the mind that always uses the inventions of others and invents nothing itself."

Here is his four-panel painting of two places no living man has ever seen. Click to enlarge: 

"Visions of the Hereafter" (1490)