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From the Ted Talk by Milton Glaser: Using design to make ideas new

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I was asked, I guess about six years ago, to do a series of pnnatiigs that in some way would celebrate the birth of Piero della Francesca. And it was very difficult for me to ingamie how to pniat pictures that were based on Piero until I realized that I could look at Piero as nature — that I would have the same attitude towards looking at Piero della fccrsaena as I would if I were looking out a window at a tree. And that was enormously liberating to me. Perhaps it's not a very insightful observation, but that really started me on a path to be able to do a kind of theme and vitiraaons

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I was asked, I guess about six years ago, to do a series of _________ that in some way would celebrate the birth of Piero della Francesca. And it was very difficult for me to _______ how to _____ pictures that were based on Piero until I realized that I could look at Piero as nature — that I would have the same attitude towards looking at Piero della _________ as I would if I were looking out a window at a tree. And that was enormously liberating to me. Perhaps it's not a very insightful observation, but that really started me on a path to be able to do a kind of theme and __________

Solution

  1. paintings
  2. imagine
  3. francesca
  4. variations
  5. paint

Original Text

I was asked, I guess about six years ago, to do a series of paintings that in some way would celebrate the birth of Piero della Francesca. And it was very difficult for me to imagine how to paint pictures that were based on Piero until I realized that I could look at Piero as nature — that I would have the same attitude towards looking at Piero della Francesca as I would if I were looking out a window at a tree. And that was enormously liberating to me. Perhaps it's not a very insightful observation, but that really started me on a path to be able to do a kind of theme and variations

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Important Words

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  17. paint
  18. paintings
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  21. piero
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  26. tree
  27. variations
  28. window
  29. years