Word: visualize
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...aside from these advantages, the art of telling short stories is dependent on several great laws. It calls for a visual power of a high order and demands certain selective power. In the novel the writer has many opportunities to make his characters vivid, but the short story writer has but one chance. Lastly, the writer of short stories must combine with a vivid imagination, beauty and clearness of expression...
Photography is a means of preserving and renewing visual images, just as writing is a means of preserving and renewing thoughts. Photography is an artificial extension of memory, and what memory does for experience--enabling us to retain it--photography may do for memory itself, by helping us to refresh the mental images we have there, which naturally are always fading away. Photography also enables us to get visual ideas of many things we have never seen because they are at a distance; and it will probably enable men in future to have correct visual images of things that will...
...with which the artist may be concerned. There are the more obvious, unessential and trivial truths of nature, and those which are more recondite, fundamental and characteristic. It is the latter and not the former, to which, as he teaches, Turner's art gives expression. These higher orders of visual truths are, however, not those which are commonly perceived. "People commonly," he tells us, "recognize objects by their least important attributes. To lay hold of the non fundamental and expressive truths, in the manner of Turner, requires a higher order of artistic gift, and to appreciate them requires ocular training...