Visual Bias Quotes

Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

Oftentimes what you see cancels out what you perceive.

In any battle between what the ear hears and what the eye sees, the eye wins every time.

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.

Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.

Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.

I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.

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.

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

That's always disappointed me, to see a guy in the crowd who doesn't look like he's having fun but in general if you just listen to the crowd it sounds like they're having fun. So I don't want to focus on the one guy who's not having fun. And by closing my eyes and just listening, I can't hear that he's not laughing but I can see that he's not laughing.

It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.

Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.

People generalize music by how you look, and I don't like that.

I never read, I just look at pictures.

Our society on a whole is trained to see young women. There are proportionally far more of them on magazine covers, on TV, and in films than int the actual population. As a result, we have a citizenry taught to see the young and ignore the not-so-young. It isn’t conscious; it’s Pavlovian. (13)

If you watch fights cage-side, sometimes different punches look better than others. It's like camera angles. Sometimes some punches look a lot better than they were, and sometimes a solid punch doesn't look good. So it just depends on your angle.

I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.

Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.

Unfortunately, one picture is worth a thousand facts.