William Morris Hunt Quotes

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

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

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

They look right. And you move left.

Light knows when you're looking at it.

In the dark, all cats are black.

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.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

Light is something that can really change your perception of space.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

The reason we know as human beings that pictures have to be focused before you take the shot is because we know if we're not focusing our eyes on something that happens, then it's too late - you can't go searching in your memory to find it because that light never struck your mind.

She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.

I don't want you looking at the light fixture; I want you looking at where light goes. But more than that, I'm interested in the effect of light upon you and your perceptions.

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

"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light."

I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow. Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks.

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.