“The philosopher who sets out to meditate upon the world does not climb a mountain to get to the widest possible view of the world or the universe, but is more inclined to shut himself up in a cell: as Poussin would have said, to grasp the prospect one must forget the aspect, an act of separating oneself from reality is an essential part of the very effort to attain and apprehend it.” Germain Bazin The Loom of Art

“The philosopher who sets out to meditate upon the world does not climb a mountain to get to the widest possible view of the world or the universe, but is more inclined to shut himself up in a cell: as Poussin would have said, to grasp the prospect one must forget the aspect, an act of separating oneself from reality is an essential part of the very effort to attain and apprehend it.”

Germain Bazin The Loom of Art

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