📚 A Giacometti Portrait, James Lord: Quotes: Your head is misplaced
When we started work again, he kept insisting that my head was too far to the right or to the left, too high or too low. No matter how I moved it, it seemed to be wrong. Finally we looked at the legs of the chair and found that they were about half an inch off the red marks painted on the floor.
Interesting. He operates (or reasons) in a quite abstract way, high-level; the details have ramifications, but he’s operating so far above them that it takes a while for him to come down back to the details.