Figures Quote by Gyorgy Kepes

This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very…

— Robert Grosseteste

A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a…

— Clement Greenberg

Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.

— Plato

The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these…

— M. C. Escher

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is…

— Douglas Sirk

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and…

— John Calvin

In arriving at the relevant theory about the specifics of our faculty of vision we will presumably use our eyes to gather relevant data.…

— Ernest Sosa

All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

— Ezra Pound

The necessary condition for an image is sight,

— Roland Barthes

Every period has its own optical focus.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy