Optical Quotes

62 quotes by 46 authors

Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one. — Bridget Riley
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
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
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
In the end nobody knows how it's done â€” how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool… — David Hockney
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
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
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion — Donna J. Haraway
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon â€“ it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that… — Josef Albers
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
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
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
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
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting. — Josef Albers
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
Thereâ€™s no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion. — Jenna Marbles
We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes. — Alexander Rodchenko
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
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
The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting. — James Rainwater

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