He said it was necessary that he became like them before he could sculpt the world. A sculptor can only create the object with a great amount of personal skill and time alone. But the object always has a subject. And he cannot possibly know what it looks like without subjecting himself to the subject which he must remember when creating the object alone.

He gets into it and soaks it up, then goes away to render it in his art form. Before he must come back again to get more. He must be alone and away from it all to create, but only after being deeply with and part of everything.