Related Authors: David Markson | Wittgenstein's Mistress
Related Topics: imprecision, language, painting, representation, turner, writing










Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the storm. Obviously, it was not the storm itself that Turner intended to paint. What he intended to paint was a representation of the storm. One's language is frequently imprecise in that manner, I have discovered.
Related Authors: David Markson | Wittgenstein's Mistress
Related Topics: imprecision, language, painting, representation, turner, writing
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