Don’t Just Look — See!

Truly See — Even Flies Can Look “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain The greatest challenge to becoming technically better in any creative genre is that of turning off the messages that our brain sends us, assuring us that we are seeing when in reality,…

Learn to See with Your Spirit and Not Merely with Your Eyes

I often write about the importance of an artist’s or a writer’s or a thinker’s truly “seeing,” as opposed to merely looking.’ Even flies can look. Looking is nothing more than image recognition Seeing is a deeper thing. It has to do with perceiving and with the imagination and with empathy and feeling. Seeing things as they truly…