▨ painting, poetry and drama

"[paintings are] neither just objective things, nor mere representations of things: they permit us to see through, and according to, themselves. They have a semi-opaque (or semitransparent (transparency)) quality, not disappearing altogether, in which case some reality or other would be seen in their place, a reality which they would no more than represent. No, they have reality of their own." p. 182-4

"We need to see through the eye, through (transparency) the image, past the surface: there is a fatal tendency for the eye to replace the depth of reality – a depth which implies the vitality, the corporeality and the empathic resonance of the world – with a planar re-presentation, that is, a picture." p. 373