Quotes About Optical

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

Now their eyes kept returning to the space where Polly's right arm should have been. It was an anomaly, an oddness, an optical discrepancy. From now on it wouldn't be her beauty that would cause people to stare at her in shopping centers.

The rules of optical dispensing vary from state to state. Dispensing eyeglasses is not that complicated, and even if it were complicated, there should be uniform rules.

Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.

Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion.

it was a reality shared by all the world, and not merely an optical delusion confined to their own eyes in their own garden.

It reflects like an optical instrument and responds to changes in the weather so sensitively that it seems like a part of the sky rather than of the land. And along with all that, Baikal is distinctly Asiatic: if a camel caravan could somehow transport Baikal across Siberia to Europe, and curious buyers unwrapped it in a marketplace, none would mistake it for a lake from around there.

Le bonheur est une illusion d'optique, deux miroirs qui se renvoient la même image à l'infini. N'essayez pas de remonter à l'image d'origine, il n'y en a pas.

The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far more optically effective than symmetry.

Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

We create space and time on the surface of our retinas.

There are optical errors in time as there are in space.

I'm watching you, big boy, my eyes say, but his are closed so it's an optical monologue.