Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Things seen are mightier than things heard.

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

The mind is smaller than the eye.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

Film is a game of projections upon projections, and the projected image on the screen is a game of light and shadows. There is nothing there; it is the brain that is decoding those things. The film doesn't have any decipherable kind of meaning if it's not seen.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog". The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog."

I was still using my eyes even though I had them shut.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

The eye always fills in the imperfections.

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.

The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.

The percept takes priority of the concept.

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

There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

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

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.