Elliott Erwitt Quotes

Men are visual creatures.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.

One of the fastest things a fruit fly does is take information from its eyes and react accordingly.

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.

I'm constantly being visually stimulated.

I think a lot of people fail to work on their sight, even though it's probably one of the most important sides to tennis. It's also about reactions and concentration and focus, and I think it's all very closely related.

You are either visual or you're not.

I'm good at shapes. If I'm not close, even if it's big, I can't read it.

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

I was probably born with some designing abilities.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.

I feel like directing is an innate talent.

I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.

Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

I have always had a predominantly visual approach to my environment.

The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That's our eyesight. That's how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately feels to us when we look at an image like we have extended our senses.

I'm a hypervisual person.

You can't make a star - they just have it.