Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?
You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.
The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.
Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.
What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.
Eyesight should learn from reason.
Our knowledge of shape and form remains, in general, a mixture of visual and of tactile experiences... A child learns about roundness from handling a ball far more than from looking at it.
But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.
It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment.
The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.
The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.
Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.
