Get the Picture
In this book I ask why the mind “tries” to make sense of a new input. Why is there a natural tendency to organize the fresh input to make it fit among past receptions? The answer that comes from physics is one, and it is general: empowering the individual with speed and clarity of thought, understanding, decision making, and movement on the earth’s
... See moreAdrian Bejan • Time And Beauty: Why Time Flies And Beauty Never Dies
Art is born in attention. Its midwife is detail. Art may seem to spring from pain, but perhaps that is because pain serves to focus our attention onto details (for instance, the excruciatingly beautiful curve of a lost lover’s neck). Art may seem to involve broad strokes, grand schemes, great plans. But it is the attention to detail that stays with
... See moreJulia Cameron • The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
What if attention influenced art styles in the way impressionism did. Instead of rendering things based on the light and color of a specific moment, you can render objects based on your relative attention to them. Different objects can be in/out of focus, saturation, detail.