Creative Seeing Quotes

Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. ... The model will serve equally for a Rembrandt drawing or for anybody's magazine cover. A genius is one who can see. The others can often 'draw' remarkably well. ... Those who get their technique first, expecting sight to come to them later, get a technique of a very ready-made order.

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

What are you looking at?" Jordan demanded finally, watching her. "A dragon." When he looked bewildered she lifted her arm and pointed to the sky in the southeast. "Right there—that cloud—what do you see when you look at it?" "A fat cloud." Alexandra rolled her eyes at him. "What else do you see?" He was quiet for a moment studying the sky. "Five more fat clouds and three thin ones.

If you're passionate about the world, and if you really look closely at everything around you, each thing can be transformed into a shoe, or into a part of a shoe.