Taiye Selasi Quotes

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.

Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.

The mind is smaller than the eye.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

Everything you see is filtered through your visual system (imperfect) and your brain (also imperfect, despite what your mom told you). Witness testimony is the worst kind of evidence in science.

What a man sees depends on what he looks at and what his previous experience has taught him to see.

We think we receive all that we perceive, but in fact, we actually give the sky its colour.

Things seen are mightier than things heard.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.

Perception and reality are two different things.

The satiated person and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.

We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it.

The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking.

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.