The greater life in the animal comes from the field of centers which is created there, not from copying or 'realism'.

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• To make a lifelike animal, we have to make the animal out of centers. If the centers are good centers, then the animal starts to get life.quote0.855
  Succinct statement of the central thesis about ornament and animal figures.
• The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process; it comes about only when the entire process is organized and concentrated on creating a living field.claim0.844
  Focus on anything else yields something else.
• To make a lifelike animal, we have to make the animal out of centers, not by copying exactly.claim0.843
  Core argument that lifelike quality comes from the field of centers, not from naturalistic representation.
• The life of any given center depends on the whole field of centers in which this center exists.claim0.842
  Key global property of the field of centers, making it non-local and unlike classical fields.
• Life comes from the wholeness, from the system of centers.quote0.830
  Summarizes the central thesis of the chapter.
• The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.818
• The wholeness and field of centers are not merely cognitive artifacts but are linked to the functional behavior of the natural world and are at the foundation of physics and biology.claim0.812
  Counters the skeptical cognitive interpretation by asserting the objective reality of centers in nature.
• Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.claim0.812
  The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.