Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

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 necessary condition for an image is sight.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.

Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.

Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

I open my eyes and my ears, and that’s why I work.

Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

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.

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations. So that light does not exist for the painter.

It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if not only, handle to reality.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes And the foul history pressed into its core; And to myself my being is my childhood And passion and entrails and the roots of senses; I'm pressed into the inside of a mask At the back of love, the back of air, the back of light.

It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.