Visual Awareness Quotes

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

You see, but you do not observe.

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

I think being deaf gave me an increased sense of sight.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

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.

Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.

The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.

For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.

I don't even know how people drove, back in the day, without a rear view camera.

When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.

The best way to take a punch is to look at it. Honestly. Someone could hit you with the hardest punch that they have, but as long as you see it, it's not going to knock you out. It's the punches that you don't see that knock you out. So you could get tapped with a small punch, but if you don't see it, you're out.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

That's just how I see things on a base level: there's so much going on. Or at least I like to have that feeling. It's part of being interested in notions of reality apart from storytelling. I don't know if it has something to do with having an art school education, which makes you aware of the way visuals speak, or makes you trust them more.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic.

Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

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

You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.