Visual Comparison Quotes

There are several ways we can know what a dog, a bird or, indeed, any other organism can see, for example either by looking at the structure of the eye and comparing it with other species, or by behavioural tests.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

Mel: Does Bret's girlfriend look anything like me? Murray: A little, around the eyes. Mel: Oh yeah? Big eyes huh? Murray: Well... she's got eyes.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it

...poking a lump of red Jello that jiggles outrageously, like a breast I once knew.

The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.

The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!

To be quite honest. I have seen a few things in 3D, and it didn't involve me anymore than when I saw something in 2D.

With high definition TV, everything looks bigger and wider. Kind of like going to your 25th high school reunion.

The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

If you could make telly as good as radio, it would be amazing - audio can do things so easily that television can't.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

When images are in black and white, they seem timeless. When you see Carrie Otis in an ad from 1989 next to an ad with Klara Wester from 2009, you don't see a 20-year difference between the pictures.

Film still looks way better than digital.

She was surprised at how tiny it seemed now. She supposed the school was just as big as it had ever been only her eyes had grown used to looking at bigger things.

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.

What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.

Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?

Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.