On the teaching, and learning, of representational art
The best a teacher can do
Is lay out for you
A clear explanation
Of the way he
(Less likely, she)
Views
The way to abstract
The buzzing confusion
That meets our eyes
From which
The best of any age
Has extracted and then,
For our future delectation,
Presented seduction
In which, through manners divers and select,
Our eyes are directed
Into scenes that convey
What the sensitive thought,
What the rationalists felt,
The ways the world works.