Dorothea Lange Quotes

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

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.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

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

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

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 eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.

If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.

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.