You Cant Just Take An Image And

Your Conscious Life Is An Elaborate After-the-fact Rationalization Of Things You Really Do For Other Reasons.

What The Artist Tries To Do (either Consciously Or Unconsciously) Is To Not Only Capture The Essence Of Something But Also To Amplify It In Order To More Powerfully Activate The Same Neural Mechanisms That Would Be Activated By The Original Object.

We Are Not Angels, We Are Merely Sophisticated Apes. Yet We Feel Like Angels Trapped Inside The Bodies Of Beasts, Craving Transcendence And All The Time Trying To Spread Our Wings And Fly Off, And It's Really A Very Odd Predicament To Be In, If You Think About It.

The Visual System Of The Brain Has The Organization, Computational Profile, And Architecture It Has In Order To Facilitate The Organism's Thriving At The Four Fs: Feeding Fleeing, Fighting, And Reproduction.

Our Ability To Perceive The World Around Us Seems So Effortless That We Tend To Take It For Granted.