The true Renaissance person is endowed with panoramic attention.... The habit of noticing the ensemble of everything and its constituent parts is a matter of will, not of innate aptitude. It involves the conscious noticing of things and the gaps that separate and connect them.
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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