Visual Appreciation Quotes

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

Every form correctly seen is beautiful

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.

The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.

I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste.

I don't see things the way my parents do. They can look at a tree and see something amazing, whereas I just see a tree. That's not to say I don't appreciate its beauty. When I watch the sea in somewhere like Sardinia, I see the beauty in that.

I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.'

When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how."

Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder.

Guys are so visual.

The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.

I would never shop from the Internet or a catalogue; otherwise, how am I going to educate my eye? I just love going out and searching for new things.

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.

I could really appreciate him now - could properly see every beautiful line of his perfect face, of his long, flawless body with my strong new eyes, every angle and every plane of him. I could taste his pure, vivid scent on my tongue and feel the unbelievable silkiness of his marble skin under my sensitive fingertips.

That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so.

For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.