I barely registered moving into the long gallery, one hand absentmindedly wrapping around my throat as I looked up at the paintings. So many, so different, yet all arranged to flow together seamlessly.. Such different views and snippets and angles of the world. Pastorals, portraits, still lifes . . each a story and an experience, each a voice shouting or whispering or singing about what that moment, that feeling, had been like, each a cry into the void of time that they had been here, had existed. Some had been painted through eyes like mine, artists who saw in colors and shapes I understood. Some showcased colors I had not considered; these had a bend to the world that told me a different set of eyes had painted them. A portal into the mind of a creature so unlike me, and yet . and yet I looked at its work and understood, and felt, and cared. Sarah J. Maas
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In the passage above, the narrator is trying to explain how she experienced her first solo art museum outing as a tourist. She says that she was touched by the work of Peter Paul Rubens because he painted with a world that was not the same as hers. He captured a different image of the world, and that was inspiring for her.

Source: A Court Of Thorns And Roses

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