"To see is itself a creative operation, requiring an effort.  Everything that we see in our daily life is more or less distorted by acquired habits, and this is perhaps more evident in an age like ours when cinema, posters, and magazines present us every day with a flood of ready-made images which are to the eye what prejudices are to the mind.

 

The effort needed to see things without distortion takes something very like courage."

Henri Matisse