Robert Delaunay Quotes

What we see, we see and seeing is changing

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

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

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

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.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

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.

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

The price of seeing is silence.

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.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

Now, it's so sacred. It's how I see the world. I can't help but look at people, their physicality, and how they move. It's how I see everything.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

Intelligence is the seeing of what is.

The eye will have his part.

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.

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

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

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

Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.