Revealing the Unseen Quotes

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.

It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see.

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

I would like to be remembered as the reporter who snuck back stage to all the off-limits shows, be it the Vatican dressing room, the Pentagon war room, or the Celtics locker room. Some curtains ought never to be pulled back; others deserve to be ripped down. When appropriate, I want to be the curtain remover.

The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.

I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I've always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

I try to get out of an image's way in order to let it articulate what is hidden.

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.

I want to do stories that are about the bits of cultural furniture that are sitting there that we're like, 'Oh yeah, that's been there for years! What could possibly be weird about it?' And then we're going to lift that piece of furniture and look at all the bugs scurry away.

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.