Pat Barker Quotes

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Others can measure their visions by what we see.

The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is to think that 'how' has been settled and fixed. When you realize this is not the case, you realize that 'how' often affects 'what' we see.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

Different men often see the same subject in different lights

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

Life is weird and complex but very simple at the same time. It's all about perception.

We all look at the same object in different ways.

When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are.

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.

I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from him, something about his favorite walk being the one he took around his own bedroom. He said that he never understood the need for people to travel because all the poetry and perspective you're ever going to get you already posses. Anais Nin had the same idea. We see the world as we are. So if it's the same brain we bring with us every time we open our eyes, what's the difference if we're looking at an island cove or a pocket watch?

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.