"I loved art school. I couldn't wait for Monday to come, couldn't wait for the weekend to be over. The PSDW (Pennsylvania School of Design for Women) was ahead of its times, I think. The instructors were'nt professional teachers; they were working artists. Children don't need instruction on how to put things down on paper. All they need to do is learn how to look and see. The important thing is just teaching them to see things. The more you do it, the more you see. I feel strongly about that."
Discription next to the Ella Peacock's painting "Girl with Read Scarf" at Museum of Utah Art & History, Aug 2005. Ella Peacock, "Girl with Red Scarf," BYU - Museum of Art, c. 1920's
The most typical perspective is that experts know more; they have more facts and rules at their disposal.... I have taken a different perspective: expertise is learning how to perceive. The knowledge and rules are incidental.
Gary Klein, Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions, MIT Press, 1999, p 168. (link to amazon) www.decisionmaking.com
"Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the ndiscriminate recording of detail."
Rudolf Arnheim
"All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't even visible."
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, p. 92 (amazon link)
