Blaise Pascal Quotes

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.

I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.

We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Mel Bochner was able to give me the tools to look at those types of experiences, register them with my own, but also hold them far enough away to see them 360.

The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose; he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.

As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture.

The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

I can only draw what I see.

It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.

We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says it's some kind of pollen from a tree. "Which one?" I'm staring up at all the differents. "Can't help you there, I'm afraid." In Room we knowed what everything was called but in the world there's so much, persons don't even know the names.