We seek the same feeling from a psychologically immersive experience that we do from a plunge in the ocean or swimming pool: the sensation of being surrounded by a completely other reality, as different as water is from air, that takes all of our attention, our whole perceptual apparatus.- Janet Murray, 1998
Art does not render the invisible, but makes visible […] it suffices to provide the appearance for one sense to produce the illusion that the whole thing [is] there in flesh and blood […] the rendering of a part does not fail to suggest the presence of the whole.- Stefan Beyst, 2005
How would the painter or poet express anything other than his encounter with the world?- Maurice Merleau-Ponty, as cited in David Michael Levin, 1993
