Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes

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.

The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

Men are visual creatures.

I'm constantly being visually stimulated.

The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.

Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.

What we see, we see and seeing is changing

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

We are not born with effective vision. The human infant has to learn how to see. The eyes gather information, they transmit it to the brain, but the brain doesn't know how to process it yet. We learn how to see in a way that's very similar to the way we learn how to speak. It takes a couple of years.

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

I'm a visual person.

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

No amount of technology is going to change the fact that people process information visually.

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of the world and direct our attention to certain things around us. In other words, they help us learn how to see.

I'm a hypervisual person.

You are either visual or you're not.

Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt.

The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.

Use your ears to record and your eyes to video.