Vision Quotes

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My work isn't about form. It's about seeing. I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people see things. — Roy Lichtenstein
The principal person in a picture is light. — Edouard Manet
At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years.… — Timothy Leary
Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give it… — Robin Lane Fox
Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things? — George Carlin
Each band or level, being a particular manifestation of the electromagnetic spectrum, is what it is only by virtue of the other bands. The color… — Ken Wilber
Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative… — Murray Bookchin
The gifts of microscopes to our understanding of cells and organisms is so profound that one has to ask: What are the gifts of the… — Unknown Author
There will always be those who must look into the dark in order to see. — Alan McGlashan
I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it. — Henry David Thoreau
Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T'… — Alexander Pope
One eye looks within, the other eye looks without. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's opened up like… — Wendy Beckett
Close your eyes and you will see. — Joseph Joubert
Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things. — Edward Steichen
Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see. — Chogyam Trungpa
Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye… — Thomas Jefferson
We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less. — Frederick Franck
Thus we cannot escape the fact that the world we know is constructed in order to see itself. This is indeed amazing. Not so much… — Unknown Author

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