“I had always made pictures as I thought I saw the world, focusing on what lay in front, but this is not how one sees the world. It only frames the centre and cuts off the lateral vision, which lies unfocused. Now I found that I could turn my eye to the adjacent field of vision, seeing another focus, an extension which I added to the original. Instead of stopping at two focuses, I looked further to the side, adding another and yet another.” WorldMadeTwoEyeLyingTurnsFoundSidesVisionSawsFocusCuttingSeeingFrontsFieldsOriginalsLaysCentreExtensionsStopping Author:Joseph Plaskett
“Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.” LyingCasesPaintingWeaknessEssenceCentrePoint Break Author:Luc Tuymans
“Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys.” BookCountryStatesLyingSpeakGreaterNew YorkMountainDefinitionsSurfaceHillsValleysCentreSuccessionDeferenceMountains And Valleys Author:James F. Cooper
“Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.” ArtFormLyingPoetryLiteratureCentreSpecificity Author:Jonathan Culler