The painting became realistic not by mechanical copying but because it was generated from the real life of the wholeness.

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• In the ship painting, the wholeness generated the details; details were created only to recreate the living wholeness and its light.claim0.851
  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.claim0.789
  The Matisse film as an exemplar of living process in art.
• In portraiture, as in architecture, it is the wholeness which is the real thing that lies beneath the surface and determines everything.claim0.779
  Generalization from the Matisse example: artistic success depends on capturing wholeness.
• The great works of traditional art were most often created in a context where the maker was trying to become one with God or lose themselves in the ground.claim0.766
  A summary of the reported intentions of historical craftsmen.
• The buildings and paintings of medieval Florence felt as if something more specific had been intended, reached for, and then achieved, beyond just the practical‑mental atmosphere and pace of great religion.claim0.766
  Alexander's personal report of being shaken by the Florentine works, suggesting an ineffable extra dimension to mystical creation.
• How then — realistically — in the modern world can we get the subtle fine detail of adaptation, variation, and harmony which makes every component slightly different, and yet do it at the break-neck speed of modern giant projects and in the colossal quantities required for the largest projects?question0.764
  The central practical question the chapter sets out to answer.
• The greater life in the animal comes from the field of centers which is created there, not from copying or 'realism'.claim0.762
  Extension of the previous claim, tying life directly to centers.
• The success of mystical tradition in creating life has a practical explanation: it helped the artist dissolve his images, constructs, and concepts, and focus on reality as it is—the structure of wholeness—enabling structure‑preserving steps.claim0.759
  A mechanistic bridge between religious devotion and the process of Book 2; belief in God operated as a cognitive tool to see wholeness.