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Art and Illusion

Ernest H. Gombrich

Form
Form Non-fiction
Year
Year 1960
Pages
Pages 466

Turn the page and the rabbit becomes a duck. Turn back and the duck is a rabbit again, and no effort of will can hold both at once.

There is no reality without interpretation; just as there is no innocent eye, there is no innocent ear.
Art and Illusion, Ernest H. Gombrich

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