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by catechu 5526 days ago
"...couldn't really put his finger on what it was that he really wanted but couldn't just do."

As an amusing literal interpretation of your metaphor, IIRC Leonardo actually painted the shadows around the Mona Lisa's mouth using his finger, which enabled his style of sfumato shading. So I suppose he was putting his finger on it...