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Quotes About Seeing

Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography is, perhaps ironically, a challenge to curators, practitioners, and critics.
~ Trevor Paglen
Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
~ Abdullah II of Jordan
He's here! That's Damon over there!" Because of his height, Noah had a clear shot of the man she was pointing to. But he still couldn't believe what he was seeing. "Oh, come on," he groaned. "A blond haired, blue-eyed demon?" He glanced at Willow just in time to catch her impish grin. "He's adorable, isn't he?" "Yeah, he's friggin' precious," he muttered...
~ Rhyannon Byrd
But once we become practiced at a contemplative worldview, a "thisness" way of seeing, there is nothing trivial anymore and all is grace.
~ Richard Rohr
15:9). Big Truth is intended to deeply change the seer himself or herself, or it is not Big Truth—or truth at all. Some form of contemplative practice is the key to this larger seeing and this larger knowing.
~ Richard Rohr
I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and i hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
~ Richard Wright
But a vague hunger would come over me for books, books that opened up new avenues of feeling and seeing...
~ Richard Wright
So,' Nico said, 'since we're going to be spending at least a year seeing each other at camp, I think I should clear the air.' Percy's smile wavered. 'What do you mean?
~ Rick Riordan
I'll stay as long as I'm welcome," said Ashe. "Thanks for coming; it's been nice seeing you," said Achmed. "Ignore him; he's trying to be funny, but he's not good at it," said Rhapsody, her face flushing with embarrassment and anger.
~ Elizabeth Haydon
From John's perspective, the true value of people seeing him was that people would then be positioned to see through him and gaze at Jesus. By
~ Alicia Britt Chole
Bengaluru is a beautiful place with a great weather and I am looking forward to seeing more of the city during my next trip.
~ Kumar Sanu
I didn't have any personal goals when I came, but after being in politics - after seeing people, their difficulties, their wants - I think our goal has to be to eliminate poverty from India.
~ Rajiv Gandhi
As our sensitivity improves, we are finally seeing planets with longer orbital periods, planetary systems that look more like our solar system.
~ Debra Fischer
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
~ Richard Wright
nor did he become obsessed with photography like so many other clients did, fussing with rolls and exposures until they did not seem to be seeing anything outside at all.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
You can see a lot by just looking.
~ Yogi Berra
That was mere probing, my eye was really turned on an invisible realm far beyond the horizon. What is it to see the invisible? That is the ultimate vision, the denial at the end of all seeing, the eye`s denial of itself.
~ Yukio Mishima
I don't recall seeing your friend, either. What did you say he was? A zombie? A mummy?" "A skeleton." "A skeleton, yeah. Haven't seen one of those in ages.
~ Derek Landy
I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house.
~ Steven Wright
In Europe, I am an outsider. I don't really understand anything that I am seeing. I can be welcomed into people's homes, I can be met with suspicion, I can be taken somewhere else altogether. There is always wonderment there for me, even if the person I am photographing may not see it or be aware of it.
~ Jim Goldberg
C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute.
~ Robert Adams
Mindfulness is unbiased. It is not for or against anything, just like a mirror, which does not judge what it reflects. Mindfulness has no goal other than the seeing itself. It doesn't try to add to what's happening or subtract from it, to improve it in any way.
~ Larry Rosenberg
People look, they don't see.
~ Laura Ruby
It was the smile of a man who is able to see, to know and to create the glory of existence. It was the mocking, challenging smile of a brilliant intelligence.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged