Edward Steichen Quotes

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

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.

Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom. I enjoy a lot of mystery.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.

Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

I'm sensitive to the things I see.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense!

I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.