Donna Tartt Quotes

You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on.

Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

My father could look straight ahead but concentrate on something on the very edge of his vision, almost nearly behind him.

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.

Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.

If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things.

Our life experiences area result of where our attention takes us.

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.

I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!

...everything looks worse in black and white.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

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

Remember this maxim: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The way you perceive things is an extremely powerful tool that will allow you to fully bring the power of intention into your life.

It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises.

The more you look, the more you see.

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.