Painting Quote by Viktor E. Frankl

A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see…

— Viktor E. Frankl

I do feel that both visual artists and writers look out at the world in a similar way, and wonder at what they see.…

— Connie Wanek

The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the…

— James Agee

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create…

— Colin Blakemore

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can…

— Edward de Bono

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

— Minor White

I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The…

— Manuel Alvarez Bravo

“our visuallydominated world sight is almost synonymous with understanding. We acknowledge light dawning by saying: ‘I see!’ The metaphor of vision suffuses our attempts…

— Richard Fortey

A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire…

— Shomei Tomatsu

What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language…

— Graciela Iturbide

We have - through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film - been enormously enriched... We may say we see the…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy