William Herschel Quotes

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

My work isn't about form. It's about seeing.

Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of the world and direct our attention to certain things around us. In other words, they help us learn how to see.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. ... The model will serve equally for a Rembrandt drawing or for anybody's magazine cover. A genius is one who can see. The others can often 'draw' remarkably well. ... Those who get their technique first, expecting sight to come to them later, get a technique of a very ready-made order.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

Organized perception is what art is all about.

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

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

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

Photography helps people to see.