Optical Illusion Quotes

You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

How fast does a zebra have to run before it looks gray.

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

We hear things, but we can't always see them, or, even if we do see them, we're not sure that we're seeing correctly. Hence: Invisible.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream patterns, figures whimsical and figures grotesque, shifting and clad in complementary colors, to appease the indignant cups and rods of the retina.

We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.

Never believe your eyes

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.

Even mud gives the illusion of depth.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

All human existence is a trick of light.

I don't think that has ever changed. I don't think I see any more or any less than I did years ago. Let's say I have the print of a photo taken in the 1960s and one I took a month ago. I think it's pretty difficult to tell any difference, personally.

Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water.

Oftentimes what you see cancels out what you perceive.

Color deceives continuously.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.