About pictures

“(...) it is more likely that their (pictures) inexhaustible mystery arises from the fact that they externalize an aspect of perception, or that they appear to externalize it, as if one were seeing the thought itself (...). I see it as a head despite the absence of these verifiers and conclude, recklessly and irresistibly, that in doing so I must surely be seeing it as Vermeer did, perhaps on the screen of a camera obscura, perhaps looking straight at a woman, and I am exalted at the thought that I see through his eyes as well as mine.” (From 'The Projective Cast', Conclusion – The Projective Cast– The Arrested Image, by Robin Evans, page 357 )