Don McCullin Quotes

Intelligence is the seeing of what is.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

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.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. "Carry this with you on your journey," he said softly, "for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star — and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental reality of that thing.

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

I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

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

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

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

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

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.