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The
archaic Greeks ... used the same word for "eye" and "light". To
glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of
all times.
Only in
quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet
mind is adequate perception of the world. The mind stands in the way of the eye.
To look at a thing is very different from seeing it. The
perception of beauty is a moral test.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Art is not what you
see, but what you make others see. If only we could pull
out our brain and use only our eyes.
I can't teach you to be
an artist; all I can do is help you learn to see.
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seeing without shadows
perception is an
acquired phenomenon
Seeing depends on knowledge
It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic;
rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic
than that: it is perception. We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less. Frederick Franck The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something ... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one. John Ruskin Seeing what is actually in front of you, as opposed to what your past experience and thought process indicates is present or others have taught or indoctrinated into you is there, is a rare skill. Stewart Bitkoff The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust Perhaps we can see best when we're looking for the least. Cyd Madsen Clarity, insight or understanding, are only possible when thought is in abeyance, when the mind is still. Then only can you see very clearly, then you can say you have really understood ... then you have direct perception, because your mind is no longer confused. J Krishnamurti It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see. Alberto Giacometti The only real experiences in life [are] those lived with a virgin sensibility – so that we only hear a tone once, only see a color once, see, hear, touch, taste and smell everything but once, the first time. All life is but an echo of our first sensations, and we build up our consciousness, our whole mental life by variations and combinations of these elementary sensations. Herbert Read An individual's ability to draw is ... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing. Betty Edwards Our art tends to be more real when we concentrate on what we actually see with our eyes and with our instincts. It becomes difficult and cumbersome when we are busy trying to figure out what we're supposed to be seeing. Lyn Asselta If you look at a thing 999 times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it for the 1000th time, you are in danger of seeing it for the first time. G. K. Chesterton The hardest thing to see is what is in front of our eyes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What is seen by the eye is transformed and colored by the vision of the mind. Robert Wade A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each detail minutely, the result will be flat and without character... the artist on the contrary, sees; that is to say, his eye, grafted on his heart, reads deeply into the bosom of nature. Auguste Rodin If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality. Darby Bannard To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees. Paul Valery We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anais Nin That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. John Berger No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art. Anne Truitt How wonderful it is when that moment of true seeing comes and I'm transported to that point when eyes, hand and mind work as the child in all of us. Alan Feltus The thing known and the thing seen are not the same. Harriet Shorr
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The true
mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. There is
more to seeing than meets the eyeball.
Look
with innocent eyes, very open. That innocence is always there. It's a
sense of wonder. Opting for one
perception eliminates all others.
Perception is strong and sight weak.
What is art but a way
of seeing?
I have taught my students not to apply rules or
mechanical ways of seeing.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Art does not reproduce
what we see; rather, it makes us see.
Any fool can learn how to paint. The trick is to learn
how to see. |
