Contemplating Quote by Victor Hugo

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action.…

— Anonymous

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

— Charles Babbage

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Tower is not a usual spectacle; to enter the Tower, to scale it, to run around its courses, is, in a manner both…

— Roland Barthes

What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head…

— Stephen Charnock

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of…

— Edwin Paxton Hood

Vision sees what could be.

— Johnny Hunt

“But the spectacle perceived does not partake of pure being. Taken exactly as I see it, it is a moment of my individual history,…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“I can't remember the name of the piece, or the artist. Maybe it wasn't even an artwork. Why must I automatically assume that every…

— Sara Baume

“Eyes overlook objects unknown to mind.”

— Toba Beta

Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of sight causes…

— Gerhard Richter