Julio Cortazar Quotes

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

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

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.

I think perspective is a necessary, amazing thing.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

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

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes.

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera, my own shutter opens, and the moment's light prints on my own silver gut. When I see this second way I am above all an unscrupulous observer.

I think perception is important.

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.

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

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

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.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

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

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.