"the landscape is not really an object of perception..."
"how are we to understand something whose form we cannot " contemplate" but whose "coherence" we can "examine"? Or, to put it differently, what is the nature of the without-form on which pictorial form depends, on which it "rests," and which it is inclined to imitate? That invisibility of the foundat"
"There is a corresponding and parallel collapse into "death" and a return to latency, when forms dissolve, features blur together, life comes undone, grows silent, and undergoes transformation. No tragedy there. Death is resorption."