Tuesday, September 05, 2006

the thinking eye


For as Paul Klee wrote in The Thinking Eye, "Didn't Feuerbach say: For the understanding of a picture, a chair is needed? Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind."

Edward Tufte in Beautiful Evidence -- quoting Paul Klee quoting Feuerbach.

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