...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all. - Julia Child

I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.

We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.

"...the average Frenchman would shrug, as if to say: "These notions of yours are all very fascinating, no doubt, but we make a decent living. Nobody has ulcers. I have time to work on my monograph about Balzac, and my foreman enjoys his espaliered pear trees. I think as a matter of fact, we do not wish to make the changes that you suggest.