Awe Quote by Burton Silverman

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don’t see-see only what they…

— Leon Levinstein

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

— Anonymous

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

— Roland Barthes

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there…

— Dorothea Lange

Everything we see… is just the visible part of reality.

— Paulo Coelho

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see

— Leon Levinstein

We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.

— Alfred Korzybski

We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.

— Sophie Ristelhueber

We do not see the lens through which we look.

— Ruth Benedict

We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on…

— Nadar

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most…

— Howard S. Becker