His manner of seeing is the basic excellence of Vermeer's art - the thing that sets it apart from the work of other men. Where others had a genius for drawing or for colouration, he had a genius for vision. One arrives, while studying his work carefully, at a feeling that he looked at things harder than others have looked at them. . . His almost perfect rendering was the outcome of perfect understanding.The Pocket Book of Old Masters, edited by Herman J. Wechsler, p. 100 Vermeer, by Philip L. Hale
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