Poul Anderson expresses this better:
"But when the sun went down, the garden seemed abruptly to come still more alive. It was as if the dolphins were tumbling through their waters, Pegasus storming skyward, Folke Filbyter peering after his lost grandson while his horse stumbled in the ford, Orpheus listening, the young sisters embracing in their resurrection - all unheard, because this was a single instant perceived, but the time in which these figures actually moved was no less real than the time which carried men.
"'As if they were alive, bound for the stars, and we must stay behind and grow old,' Ingrid Lindgren murmured."
-Poul Anderson, Tau Zero (London, 1973), CHAPTER 1, p. 7.
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Kaor, Paul!
And your comments here reminded me of how much pleasure I had in again seeing last year Velasquez's painting "Don Baltasar Carlos and His Dwarf." The artist shows us a moment in the lives of the young prince and his dwarf. It was so much better to actually see the painting in person because the traces of the brush strokes made the subjects of the painting seem so much more REAL. Far more so than a simply photographic reproduction, which inevitably smooths out and flattens what you see when the painting is studied in person.
And the same of line of thought applies, of course, to all other paintings, good or bad.
Sean
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