Keith Jarrett Quotes

High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

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.

Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of the world and direct our attention to certain things around us. In other words, they help us learn how to see.

While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.

The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)

My father could look straight ahead but concentrate on something on the very edge of his vision, almost nearly behind him.

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

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

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.

“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”

We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

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

If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.

Our life experiences area result of where our attention takes us.