Andre Breton Quotes

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

We must look a long time before we can see.

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

The price of seeing is silence.

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.

To see is to think, and to think is to see.

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera, my own shutter opens, and the moment's light prints on my own silver gut. When I see this second way I am above all an unscrupulous observer.

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

You can observe a lot by watching.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

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.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

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

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

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.