See What You're Missing: New Ways of Looking at the World Through Art

“…We live most of the time in a semi-conscious state, moving from one routine event to another with depressed feelings, like zombies in a world of the dead. We don't see the beautiful fish on the beach because, like those silly little fish, we often don't notice what's around us. But it shouldn't be like that; it should not be our partial reality. We can learn to look and feel the world with the heightened consciousness of an artist: to feel the pleasure of seeing the world with real, one hundred percent vision... A tree, a building, the color of the road - all this becomes imperceptible, not postponed in our consciousness. We are missing out on so much! And artists - no. They see "with an innocent eye", as John Ruskin, a critic of Victorian art, said. They learn to unlearn: to see as if for the first time, not for the last time." Will Gompertz