[Suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] Although it is easy on the willing [NDR: people] to stimulate this ‘image-formation’, no one may hope that he will get there then by chance, because for the first we only have to adopt this practice through a daily exercise; because firstly we only have to adopt this practice through a daily exercise; next we draw after these crude and unpolished representations to our own ability; it then follows that everyone one of us more and more, although without overloading our mind, applies our fantasy to skillfully depict the uncorrupted examples of things that we have once caught, in order for us to express this in an acceptable way; because without this ability of representing and expressing these aforementioned representations, it would be much better to follow a loose illusion off the cuff, just as it first happens, then linger for a long time on representations that appear with difficulty.

Junius explains that the whole process of storing and working after examples in the mind only makes sense if the artist is capable to represent (‘voorstellen’) the examples he has formed in his imagination. This is one of the rare occurrences of the term. The phrasing of this section is rather different in the Latin edition.[MO]