“We as art historians are incredible narcissists, as observation inevitably begins with the one who is observing. I have seen this more than once, even in the case of the exact sciences, and let me be clear: I wonder if I don’t do it myself sometimes. To project misconceptions into reality and recycle them as observations.”
— Roger Marijnissen in interview with Eric De Bruyn, “Observation begins with the one who is observing” in CeROArt, 2015
“Well, I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower—and I don’t.”
— Georgia O’Keeffe (text with An Orchid, 1941), see Didion