Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

You can't hit what you can't see.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That's what I think good art does - it teaches you how to see the historical moment that you live in.

My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

Exactitude is not truth.

Four times out of five the linesman gets a better view of the ball near him than the player himself.

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

When I look down the range at the target all I can do is try to distinguish between the different colors.

Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

The more up-to-date the information, the more valuable it is.

What I care about is maximum information.

You want what you write to be essential.

The more you can keep your action and your mind and the ball you are delivering as simple as you can nothing can go wrong.

What appears on the screen is what people see. Everything else is just interpretation.

Definitions.... are never really needed, and rarely of any use

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

The necessary condition for an image is sight.

In a way, it's like the photographer always has his vision of me. The pictures that I'm known for are not really my image, they're always the photographer's vision of me. I can look a hundred different ways, but what people see of me in pictures is not really my image.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.

The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)

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

If you let the image of the messenger get in the way of whatever message there may be, however large or small, that's your problem, not his.