Naming reality

"We cannot rely on the image of reality, what we see. For we see it only in the way that our lens apparatus, our eye, happens to transmit it to us, along with whatever other experiences we have had that correct that picture. And because that's not good enough, because we wonder wheter it might not all be entirely different, we paint.... For example, when we say, that's what a thing is like, we only have to depict it - then we have got it comepletely and we have got it right, and it can't be any other way. That's exactly what happens when things and conditions are named, it's something you can't rely on."
Gerhard Richter

"....even architecture, which is meant to last forever, is constantly changing, according to the chosen angle of perception."
on Herzog&deMeuron, Natural histoy p.207