Optical Quotes
62 quotes by 46 authors
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Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.
— Bridget Riley
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With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge…
— Max von Laue
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and…
— Victor Hugo
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There are numerous daytime and night time photographs and videotapes of clearly non-human spacecraft from all over the world; these films and videotapes have been…
— Steven M. Greer
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In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool…
— David Hockney
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Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader…
— Marcel Proust
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Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance.... By the elimination of all muddy colors,…
— Paul Signac
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The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion
— Donna J. Haraway
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Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that…
— Josef Albers
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If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing…
— Douglas Sirk
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Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures…
— Otto Neurath
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We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an optical illusion. The…
— Ivan Vladislavic
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Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
— Josef Albers
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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts,…
— Albert Einstein
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There’s no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.
— Jenna Marbles
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We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.
— Alexander Rodchenko
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The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you…
— Ansel Adams
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The biggest breakthrough in the next 50 years will be the discovery of extraterrestrial life. We have been searching for it for 50 years and…
— Freeman Dyson
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The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.
— James Rainwater
Who Wrote These Optical Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 62 Optical Quotes, led by these top contributors: