It's easier to go somewhere if you've been there before.
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.
What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.
Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences
It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.
To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.
There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known.
I had had a classical education prior to that.
I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.
