There are as many ways of seeing as there are artists. Here are a few perspectives :
“Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it’s because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.” Pierre Bonnard
“Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England’s schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man’s understanding… I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.” Emily Carr
“We do not see with our eyes, but through them” said Ken Danby and according to Paul Klee: “One eye sees, the other feels.” whereas Paul Gauguin remarked “I shut my eyes in order to see.”
Break-a-Brush!
David
“Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard and poetry is a painting which is heard and not seen.” Leonardo da Vinci