Back Quote by Gabriel Lippmann

If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of…

— Thomas Young

“Our visual field, the entire view of what we can see when we look out into the world, is divided into billions of tiny…

— Jill Bolte Taylor

The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black,…

— Walter J. Phillips

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade…

— Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own.…

— Gordon Parks

Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I'm able…

— Haruki Murakami

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show…

— Josef Albers

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

— Gabriel Lippmann

If you look at how beautiful the eye can be, it has its own inside patterns and colors.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

Vision sees what could be.

— Johnny Hunt

But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the…

— Thomas Young