Quotes About Seeing

The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new way of thinking.

For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too. The horror comes later.

Lightning - 1881-1968 There is a solitude in seeing you, Followed by your company when you are gone. You are like heaven's veils of lightning. I cannot see till afterward How beautiful you are. There is a blindness in seeing you, Followed by the sight of you when you are gone.

The danger of meditating is accidentally beginning to think , and thinking is no longer meditating, thinking leads to an objective. The least dangerous thing, in meditating, is "seeing," which dispenses with thinking words.

I had fallen into the temptation of seeing, the temptation of knowing and feeling.

It was a short session of the simple being-ness that he had long coveted for The Afterlife. What Glynis had called "doing nothing," The smelling and seeing and hearing and small noticings of sheer animal presence in the world surely constituted activity of a sort, perhaps the most important kind. This was a form of companionship that he'd been especially cherishing with Glynis of late: devoid of conversation, but so surprising in its contrast to being by yourself.

Because I was writing verse, my instructor suggested I study Shakespeare. The Shakespeare teacher insisted you couldn't understand the text without seeing it on its feet.

As a navigator, I started studying astronomy because sometimes you're not able to use the equipment, so you'd have to do it the old-fashioned way, figuring out what you were seeing in the sky.

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.

What legendary travelers have taught us since Pausanius and Marco Polo is that the art of travel is the art of seeing what is sacred.

Death had found them watching, trying to see beyond seeing.

Some dead with fighting faces and eyes flung wide open in wonder. Death had found them watching, trying to see beyond seeing.

You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.

As Boehme puts it: "When you remain silent from the thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed in you. . . . Your own hearing, willing and seeing hinder you so that you do not see and hear God.

But right now Dianne Klister seems a stranger, and Lily realizes she's seeing her girlfriend in full-fledged work mode for the first time ever. And she appears every bit as formidable as the press has always made her out to be.

By early February my world had considerably lightened because I spent all day seeing rather than reading or thinking, the latter of which comprised mostly of shortsighted rehearsals of questionable conclusions. This all could easily be allowed to dissipate into the landscape because I was exhausted by the fraudulence of my hard work.

Dr. Keller begins pacing. I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike. What do you mean? Your daughter, Dr. Keller says flatly. I think she's seeing God.

I believe photography is about choosing to live, being brave. Looking is an act of courage. It's terrifying. It's possible to see too much, to witness things that we cannot hold.

The trick is making memory a blessing To know the past forever lost, yet seeing Behind the wall a garden still in blossom.

Ever to be emphasized, however, is the reality that God's "seeing" is not the same thing as His "causing" something to happen.7

I wouldn't say one is easier or more difficult, but when you're inside a costume and a mask, you have to endure heat - and, often, difficulty seeing. The vision is not very good in a mask. And you have to cope with that, as well as trying to think about this character.

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.