Optical Quotes

62 quotes by 46 authors

We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are… — Albert Einstein
I've never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But I have learnt… — Twiggy
What you see with the eyes of faith is more real than what you see with your optical eyes. — Chris Oyakhilome
Every guild and trade has its own...private patriotism, which makes it resent all rebellion from within and all competition or criticism from without. ...Vested Interests.… — Aldous Huxley
History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future,… — Friedrich Schiller
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world,… — Robert Musil
People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping,… — Alexander Herzen
The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells… — Daniel Gilbert
There are optical illusions in time as well as space. — Marcel Proust
An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations.… — Paul Cezanne
The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of… — Cory Doctorow
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility… — Jerry Saltz
Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures. — Gyorgy Kepes
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals… — David Hockney
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without… — Marcel Proust
Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings… — Jerry Saltz
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
Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader… — Marcel Proust

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