study material: <story of art>- Gombrich
Intro: Art and artists?
most people like to see in pictures what they would also like to see in reality, that is quite a nature preference. we all like beautiful things, but the beauty of a picture dies not really lie in the beauty of its subject matter. 要記住我們看的是畫 而不是美人,哪怕相貌平庸，畫作也依然引人入勝。
The trouble about beauty is that tastes and standards of what is beautiful vary so much。
...but we must first learn to know his methods drawing to understand his feeling, different methods of drawings are like different languages. when we have come to understand these different languages, we may even prefer works of art whose expression is less "good-looking".我們必須先學會理解他的繪畫手法，然后才能了解他的感情。在逐漸了解了那些不同的繪畫語言后，我們甚至有可能對表現方法不那么flatter的作品更喜愛。
所以 如果我們看到一幅畫畫得不夠“正確”，那么應該追問自己個問題，（1）藝術家是否無端的更改了他所看見的事物的外形。
我們有個很奇怪的細觀念頭，總是認為畫作應該永遠跟我們司空見慣的圖畫一樣。
可是，如果我們能把過去聽說的什么青草藍天之類的話都置之腦后，好像從其它星球剛剛探險來到此地一樣初次面對這個世界，就能發現這世間萬物大可具有出人意外的色彩。有時畫家就覺得自己是在進行這種探險。他們想要重新看世界，把肉是粉紅色蘋果是黃紅色這樣的conventional偏見拋開。在這方面最有成果的藝術家往往能創作出最振奮人心的作品。比如dali的作品。
we are all inclined to accept conventional forms or colors as the only correct ones. but if we try to forget about conventional forms and colours, we may find that things are apt to have the most surprising colours and forms.
there is no greater obstacle to the enjoyment of great works of art than our unwillingness to discard habits and prejudices.
我們今天在博物館美術館中看到的陳列的雕塑和繪畫當初都不是為了有意作為藝術展出而創作的，他們都是為了特定的場合特定的目的而創作的，所以在藝術家著手工作時，很多具體的條件都在他的考慮之中。
觀察一位藝術家如此努力的追求合適的平衡是件引人入勝的事（米開朗基羅的草地上的圣母 以及各種姿勢的草圖的例子），但他也無法回答為什么要這樣做。確實有一些藝術家活著批評家曾想方設法總結他們的一書法則，然而關于那些法則，事實總是證明，低手庸才試圖循規蹈矩卻一無所獲，而藝術大師離經叛道卻能獲得一種前所未有的和諧。藝術是沒有規則的，因為你永遠不能預先知道藝術家可能要達到的效果。
nothing, perhaps, is more important than just this: that to enjoy these works we must have a fresh mind, now which is ready to catch every hint and to respond to every hidden harmony: a mind.?
it is infinitely better not to know anything about art than to have the kind of half-knowledge which makes for snobbishness.
there's nothing more dangerous than half-knowledge and snobbery in art appreciation.
