Trevor Paglen Quotes

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

The eye sees more than the heart knows.

You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

The one thing I try to do with everything I write is open people's eyes to those they normally ignore or dismiss. To make people aware of the "other" side of things. That someone's circumstances may not be what you think they are or what they show to the world.

We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

Facts can obscure the truth.

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.

Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--

Everything I can't see / is at least as real as what I can.

It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.

During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.

We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people, events, and things of the day - to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

Everything we see… is just the visible part of reality.

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

I rather think he knew anyway.

Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.