Walt Whitman Quotes

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's why people take their own pictures, because it's difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

All my work is about how it feels to look.

The satiated person and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.

I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond

I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.

Everything looks better with my eyes closed.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

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

I don't know if I could, like, see a face and know what the face of beauty looks like, but after I've seen it I know if I've felt like it was beauty.

There is no one kind of thing that we 'perceive' but many different kinds, the number being reducible if at all by scientific investigation and not by philosophy: pens are in many ways though not in all ways unlike rainbows, which are in many ways though not in all ways unlike after-images, which in turn are in many ways but not in all ways unlike pictures on the cinema-screen--and so on.

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them.

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.

Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculpture result from the viewer's movement. Step by step the perception not only of the sculpture but of the entire environment changes.

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

Experience is only half of experience.

It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.

My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.