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Without clear Vision no skill can avail.
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“Without clear Vision no skill can avail.”

George Henry Lewes

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The Principles of Success in Literature
Date
1891
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Technique cannot fully rescue confused conception: Lewes argues that literary skill depends first on seeing the subject and its relations with enough distinctness.

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The Principles of Success in Literature, chapter on Vision in Art, Project Gutenberg #10420; “Vision” is Lewes’s critical term for distinct mental apprehension.

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