In vision and painting Bryson describe the relationshiop between gaze and glance:

The glance takes on the role of saboteur,trickster,for the glance is not simply intermingled with the Gaze,but is separated out,repressed,and as it is repressed,is also constructed as the hidden term on whose disavowal the whole system depends.The flickering ungovernable mobility of the glance strikes at the very roots of rationalism,for what it can never apprehend is the geometric order which is rationalism's true ensign.Before the geometric order of pictorial composition,the glance finds itself marginalized and declared legally absent.

瞥见扮演了破坏者，骗子的角色，因为它并不是与凝视混杂在一起，而且是分离的，被压抑的。当它被压抑的时候，也就成为一个否定是整个系统的隐藏术语。一瞥中的目光闪烁不定，难以控制，这便触及到了理性主义的根源，它永远无法解释几何秩序——理性主义的标志。在图形构成几何原理出现之前，瞥见一直是边缘化的非法存在。