Human Eye Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more… — Galen Rowell
Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. — Herman Melville
What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity. — Berenice Abbott
The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain.… — Ellen Meloy
More than that, I believe that the grass is green because green is restful to the human eye, that the sky is blue to give… — Penelope Fitzgerald
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy. — William Wilberforce
There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to… — Seneca the Younger
Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
The most abundant hue in nature, the human eye sees more green than any other color in the spectrumas it has throughout history, multifaceted emerald… — Leatrice Eiseman
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality. — Ruth Bernhard
Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time. — Michael Kenna
Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye. — Douglas Sirk
So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it… — Norman Vincent Peale
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very… — Ursula K. Le Guin
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! — Thomas Mann
The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex… — Richard Dawkins
It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars,… — Andrew Sean Greer
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings,… — Barbara Kingsolver
Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart… — Loren Eiseley
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. — Corrie Ten Boom

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