Matt Haig Quotes

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

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

If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

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

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

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

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

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.

The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

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

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

I am best viewed from a distance.

Failure to recognize the obvious is not a good characteristic of a leader.