Paul Cezanne Quotes

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

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

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.

Eyesight should learn from reason.

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

Subject is known by what she sees.

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

You can observe a lot by watching.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

To love beauty is to see light.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.