Matthew Williamson Quotes

History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of it.

I love the idea that if you watch something twice, three times, four times, you'll continuously notice new things.

Once I started to look i finally began to see.

We all look. The lucky find.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

New ways of seeing can disclose new things… But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

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

There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what’s happening.

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.

A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.