Selective Vision Quotes

A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.

People see what they want to see when they need to.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.

To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world. Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times-the pulse of today. The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will, but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.

The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

The blind see what they want to see.

There's an enormous amount of obliviousness: a desire among young gentrifiers to see only the city they want to see.

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.