Hedda Sterne Quotes

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

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.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

The better you look, the more you see.

So many things become beautiful when you really look.

The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.

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.

A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

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.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

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.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

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

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

See into life, don't just look at it.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.