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'the artist no longer aimed at including everything in the picture in its most clearly visible form, but took account of the angle from which he saw an object. ... He drew the youth's shield. not in the shape which we might see it in our imagination as a round, but seen from the side, leaning against a wall'

A generous but still considered view of the manifold products of human creation ('art').

'Every Greek sculptor wanted to know how he was to represent a particular body. The Egyptians had based their art on knowledge. The Greeks began to use their eyes.' Wonderfully, excitingly, described.