Charles Baudelaire Quotes

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The more you look, the more you see.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Once I started to look i finally began to see.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

The better you look, the more you see.

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.

The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.

You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.