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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: make an ILIAD of a daily paper.
Your definition of seeing is quite right. It is the first part of
omission to be partly blind. Artistic sight is judicious
blindness. Sam Bough must have been a jolly blind old boy. He
would turn a corner, look for one-half or quarter minute, and then
say, 'This'll do, lad.' Down he sat, there and then, with whole
artistic plan, scheme of colour, and the like, and begin by laying
a foundation of powerful and seemingly incongruous colour on the
block. He saw, not the scene, but the water-colour sketch. Every
artist by sixty should so behold nature. Where does he learn that?
In the studio, I swear. He goes to nature for facts, relations,
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