Thursday, January 13, 2011

The New Yorker, November 29, 2010

Peter Schjeldahl on the Ghent Altarpiece.


A quote, pure poetry:

"We know now, from brain science, that seeing is not a direct register of what meets our eyes but a fast mental construction that squares sensations with memory and desire:  what we believe and wish reality to be."

How true is this of so many things in our lives?

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