Don DeLillo Quotes

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

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.

The more you look, the more you see.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

Seeing the small is called clarity.

If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.

In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

You must learn to see, what you are looking at

Look with all your eyes, look.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

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.

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

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.

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.

Once I started to look i finally began to see.