Quotes About What The Eye Sees

#1. We see things based on autopilot. Our mind identifies something in a certain way, no matter what the eye sees. The eye tells you one thing and the brain tells you another.

Jerry Andrus

#2. Our perceptions take on richness and depth as a result of all the things that we learn. The eye is not a camera that objectively takes a photo of the "world out there." Rather, what the eye sees is determined by what the brain has learned. This suggests a short mantra: learn more, see more.

Richard Restak

#3. The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.

Paul Theroux

#4. ALIF: Painting brings to life what the mind sees, as a feast for the eyes.
LAM: What the eye sees in the world enters the painting to the degree that it serves the mind.
MIM: Consequently, beauty is the eye discovering in our own world what the mind already knows.

Orhan Pamuk

#5. I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own. What the heart can perceive is a very different matter.

Gordon Parks

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

Graciela Iturbide

#7. He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

Leslie Stephen

#8. Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

Robert Breault

#9. Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

Samuel Beckett

#10. The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what they eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#11. What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.

Pierre Bonnard

#12. What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.

Coventry Patmore

#13. What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

Ruth Bernhard

#14. The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.

Eudora Welty

#15. I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

Galen Rowell

#16. The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Thomas Carlyle

#17. Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#18. A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don't see-see only what they have always seen and what they expect to see-where a photographer, if he's good, will see everything. And better if he sees things he doesn't expect to see.

Leon Levinstein

#19. The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes

Alexej Von Jawlensky

#20. The religious way is the deep way, the way that sees what physical eyes alone fail to see, the intangibles of the heart of every phenomenon. The religious way is the way that touches universal relationships; that goes high, wide and deep, that expands the feelings of kinship.

Sophia Lyon Fahs

#21. With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.

Conrad Hall

#22. Blue is the most common eye color in Oria Province, but there is something different about his eyes and I'm not sure what it is. More depth? I wonder what he sees when he looks at me. If he seems to have depth to me, do I seem shallow and transparent to him?

Ally Condie

#23. The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

William Shakespeare

#24. Suzuki also frequently quotes a sentence of Eckhart's: "The eye wherein I see God is the same eye wherein God sees me" (Suzuki, Mysticism: East and West, p. 50) as an exact expression of what Zen means by Prajna.

Thomas Merton

#25. The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Robertson Davies

#26. Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

Joyce Carol Oates

#27. The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#28. I am as one
Who doth attempt some lofty mountain's height,
And having gained what to the upcast eye
The summit's point appear'd, astonished sees
Its cloudy top, majestic and enlarged,
Towering aloft, as distant as before.

Joanna Baillie

#29. The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

Thomas Carlyle

#30. The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.

Flannery O'Connor

#31. The soul sees what the eye cannot,

Elizabeth Brundage

#32. First, I'm a writer; I look at things from a different point of view. The untrained eye is the eye that sees what's been missed.
Devon, from The Dragon's Breath by Jenna Lindsey

Jenna Lindsey

#33. The eye of judgment sees at a distance what it refuses to see in it's own reflection.

T.F. Hodge

#34. Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment
where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels
this moment shows us that what is real is sacred

Mark Nepo

#35. A man sees only what concerns him ... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!

Henry David Thoreau

#36. The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.

Bryant McGill

#37. It's only with the heart one sees clearly, for what's essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#38. What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind belives.

Harry Houdini

#39. You are one with the same force that provides the spiral arms of the galaxy. That universal creativity. It's also what you are as well. And when the mystic eye is open and sees that, a person is forever changed !

Alex Grey

#40. To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.

Daniel Gilbert

#41. Most sculptors make the mistake", he said, "of thinking of eyes as form and they therefore make them as spherical surfaces. Eyes are not forms, they are transparent, and what one really sees is the light of the soul in them - and that is what I try to give them

Walter Russell

#42. Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye.

Alfred Tennyson

#43. What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson