Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship....

“ Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the storm. Obviously, it was not the storm itself that Turner intended to paint. What he intended to paint was a representation of the storm. One's language is frequently imprecise in that manner, I have discovered. ”

David Markson

From : Wittgenstein's Mistress