The famous portraitist, Everett Raymond Kinstler, who paints people like presidents and other glitterati, has said that his nearsightedness helps him with his paintings - it keeps him from seeing unnecessary details that would screw up the portraits if he added them.
But Woofie, do you like Monet? I have a friend, an elderly lady who paints, that covers her eyes when she sees a Monet - she doesn’t want to use her brains cells storing bad art she says, is afraid it will pull down her own painting ability. Kind of like associating with the wrong kind of people.
Actually, I like Monet well enough, and Degas better, but her attitude strikes me funny.
Meant to ping you to #7.