"As he looks closer, he discovers there is a still-greater masterpiece in which he appears as an artist creating the very same paintings that he begins to recognize. Our artist then realizes that all of the people he painted are also painting their own pictures, and moving about in their own realities in a way that even he cannot perceive. In a flash of insight it occurs to him that he also has been painted -- that there is another artist behind him from whom his own creativity springs, and he also beings to look out of the frame."

Seth