logo

Quotes About Seeing

For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures.
~ Lynda Barry
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.
~ Ernst Haas
I was on my dad's tour bus when I was super little. My dad did a tour of 'Annie Get Your Gun' when I was really little, and I loved going and seeing him do that.
~ Noah Cyrus
For me, the exhausting thing about touring is the sitting around, which is why working on my concert music is really great - and also seeing concerts and seeing friends and, whenever possible, getting out to see a museum.
~ Bryce Dessner
When you understand how the mind-brain functions together, you know that faith, which is believing before seeing, is the natural process of creation.
~ Robert Anthony
Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.
~ Andrew Sarris
The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It's ridiculous.
~ Bill Frist
One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.
~ William Shakespeare
I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
sigh. "Matt, I know. But it ended up to be fun—going to the dance with Walker … and seeing you on the stage playing the drums. You rocked!" Matt grins. "It was fun—playing while you danced." Then his grin fades a little. "It wasn't fun seeing you dance with Walker, though." We
~ Melanie Marks
I've always worked a lot with silence in my films. It forces the audience to concentrate on what they're seeing, because silence is pure emotions. It has no logic; it goes straight to the heart.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
No sería erróneo hablar de una compulsión a fotografiar: a transformar la experiencia misma en una manera de ver.
~ Susan Sontag
Luxury as beauty" has nothing to do with a particular place or an object's price tag. It is seeing with eyes for beauty. Once we cut the automatic but learned connection between buying stuff and pleasure, we can actively cultivate new connections - a sense of freedom as we shed draining habits and discover new pleasures in seeing and creating beauty all around us.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.
~ Haruki Murakami
It's always more intriguing to imagine what's happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.
~ Sofia Coppola
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
~ Stella Adler
Learning and seeing are more important than education.
~ Sten Nadolny
Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The more open you are within, the more capacity you will have to know, to see, and to love.
~ John de Ruiter
77] Pride. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it; in other words, we would never travel by sea if it meant never talking about it, and for the sheer pleasure of seeing things we could never hope to describe to others.
~ Blaise Pascal
Above all else, their eyes obsessed me. In the standing tanks on either side of them, different fishes showed me the simple stupidity of their handsome eyes so similar to our own. The eyes of the axolotls spoke to me of the presence of a different life, of another way of seeing.
~ Julio Cortazar
Technology never exists on its own, it's part of a wider collection of connections, ways of seeing things." FADE by Kailin Gow.
~ Kailin Gow
To be part of the big picture, whether it's celebrity interviews or seeing how big the U.S. Open is in New York or on the world stage, is amazing.
~ Pam Shriver
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.
~ Andre Weil