Seeing

If a man has not studied painting, or at any rate black and white

drawing, his eyes are wild; learning to draw tames them. The first step

towards taming the eyes is to teach them not to see too much.

Quickness in seeing as in everything else comes from long sustained

effort after rightness and comes unsought. It never comes from effort

after quickness.

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