About This Quote
In "The Art of Painting," by Rembrandt, the painter explains that he is not painting a scene but rather what he sees in front of him. He says that while some elements of the scene may be missing or different from the scene in our memory, there is still a relationship between what we remember and what we see before us. And this relationship is the "force" the painter is trying to capture on canvas.
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