Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

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.

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

I think my life has been transformed by the ability to take things that exist in the world and look at them more closely. I think that's what art does at its best: it allows us to slow down.

I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

The better you look, the more you see.

What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far looking ultimately becomes one's subject - these are important questions.

There is creation in the eye.

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

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.

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

It's no good operating on eyes if your eyes are asleep.

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

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.

The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.

Vision is more than looking.

At the heart of art is learning to see

Love adds a precious seeing to the eye.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

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