Quote by Peter Heller

The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this…

— Anonymous

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

— Peter Webber

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

— Joseph Raffael

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

— Marion Milner

“Humans tend to cling on to a picture that was painted in front of their eyes, instead of opening up their mind to the…

— Lionel Suggs

“To look, see and observe are different ways of using the organ of sight, each with its own intensity, even when there is some…

— José Saramago

“The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are…

— Siri Hustvedt

During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at…

— Akira Kurosawa

That's what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things…

— Jasper Johns

“SOME PAINTINGS become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found a few…

— Aldo Leopold

“Observing is not just seeing. It is watching with attention.”

— Ilchi Lee

What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now…

— David Salle