Artists Quote by John Lubbock

What we see in what we look at, depends mainly on what we look for.

— Jeromy Shingongo

“We don't see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a ship's captain.…

— Sten Nadolny

“Nature and books belong to all who see them.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

— John Lubbock

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

— Charles Peguy

Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness of Impression.…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It is very important to carefully observe the things we see before we judge. Things aren't always as they appear.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“Our job involves looking at things that people usually can't see.”

— Fuminori Nakamura

“Eyes that looked out into the world, that took in so cleverly light, shape, and movement--why should it be important what they themselves looked…

— Katherine Min

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.”

— Albert Szent-Györgyi

“When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph.”

— Abbas Kiarostami