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This is why people with artistic minds are the better philosophers.
If you mean "creative" when you say "artistic", then I agree. However, creativity and analytic thought are not mutually-exclusive.
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Unfortunately it takes like minded people to see what they are getting at. If you take analytical thinking too far you ruin the whole idea of philosophy. This is where the semantic games come in. I find that metaphor is a more effective way of expressing an idea than a mathematical equation.
You might want to read some Douglas Hofstadter. He a brilliant philosopher of mind who started out in Physics. He wrote a Pulitzer-prize winning book called "Goedel, Escher, Bach" which is full of both mathematics and metaphor. (He wrote this book while he was a graduate student, BTW) His later books deal with music and language, all containing math and metaphor.
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Although I guess that depends on who you are trying to express your idea to. If you are trying to convey an idea to a mathematical mind then I am quite wrong in saying metaphors are more accurate. However if I am discussing an idea with a creative mind then I could not be more right.
The thing is, it takes a very creative mind to be a good mathematician, and creativity without rules and process (math) is senseless.
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