A painting is a succession of blobs that connect up and finally compose the subject, each blob a center of life.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• A building, or a building detail, or a painting, is, to some degree or other, spirit.claim0.798
  The claim that made things are actual realizations of spirit, in their material substance.
• In the ship painting, the wholeness generated the details; details were created only to recreate the living wholeness and its light.claim0.785
  Description of the author's painting process as a microcosm of a living process.
• Matisse's painting process is exactly the kind of step-by-step adaptation with feedback: each brushstroke is a response to the actual emerging painting, making it continuously better.claim0.753
  The Matisse film as an exemplar of living process in art.
• The painting became realistic not by mechanical copying but because it was generated from the real life of the wholeness.claim0.752
  Key claim about the source of realism in art.
• The actual substance itself—the building, the painting—made to be a center—is itself physically spirit.claim0.750
  The assertion that dull material becomes spirit itself when it has the center.
• Paint has a very short life and implies color is not being taken seriouslyclaim0.742
  The need to repaint after a few years makes it impractical for the deep effort required to get the light just right.
• In portraiture, as in architecture, it is the wholeness which is the real thing that lies beneath the surface and determines everything.claim0.741
  Generalization from the Matisse example: artistic success depends on capturing wholeness.
• In this painting there is a quality of tears. The bright colors, reds and yellows, are not bright. They are almost somber, worn by the cares of the world, yet seeming to have the quality of family love, or old affection.claim0.739
  The specific painting achieves the sadness quality through its somber, affectionate color relationships.