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: The following page is from Pico, but i forgot what article it is from. Could any one tell me the origin of this page? please!!! thanks. : "We have long given up claiming that we represent things as they appear to our eyes. That was a will-o’-the-wisp which it is useless to pursue. We do not want to fix on the canvas the imaginary impression of a fleeting moment. Let us follow Cézanne’s example, and build up the picture of our motifs as solidly and enduringly as we can. Why not be consistent and accept the fact that our real aim is rather to construct something than to copy something? If we think of an object, let us say a violin, it does not appear before the eye of mind as we would see with our bodily eyes. We can, and in fact do, think of its various aspects at the same time. Some of them stand out so clearly that we can feel that we can touch and handle them; others are somehow blurred. And yet this strange medley of images represents more of the “real” violin than any single snapshot or meticulous painting could do."

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