Now Equilibrium Is The Very Opposite Of

When The Thing Observed... Is Seen As An Agglomeration Of Pieces, The Details Lose Their Meaning And The Whole Becomes Unrecognizable. This Is Often True Of Snapshots In Which No Pattern Of Salient Shapes Organizes The Mass Of Vague And Complex Nuances.

Good Art Theory Must Smell Of The Studio, Although Its Language Should Differ From The Household Talk Of Painters And Sculptors.

In Many Instances, Order Is Apprehended First Of All By The Senses.

The Experienced Physician, Mechanic, Or Physiologist Looking At A Wound, An Engine, A Microscopic Preparation, "sees" Things The Novice Does Not See. If Both, Experts And Laymen, Were Asked To Make Exact Copies Of What They See, Their Drawings Would Be Quite Different.

It Would Be Most Wholesome If For At Least Twenty Years Art Historians Were Forbidden To Refer To Any Derivations. If They Were Not Allowed To Account For A Work Of Art Mainly By Tracing Where It Comes From, They Would Have To Deal With It In And By Itself--which Is What They Are Most Needed For.