"In his 1821 book, “A Defense of Poetry,” Percy Shelley writes that an artist must learn to imagine what he knows. For many artists, the verdict of macular degeneration might have been disabling, or at least discouraging. For Jules, it was an invitation to imagine what he knew."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/opinion/artist-vision-sight.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Guest%20Essays