eye quotes

I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility.

I'm in constant movement. I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horseÕs mouth. I fall and rise with the falling and rising bodies. This is I, the machine, maneuvering in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations.

Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I coordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads to the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.

Anybody doesn’t like these pitchers don’t like poetry, see? Anybody don’t like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys being tolerated by kind horses. Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes.

We do not see Nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our heart.

The road from the eye to the heart is easy to follow. I am taking it with my eyes closed.

I wish to capture the present with the eye of the past.

The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or, rather, this coincidence, is successfully brought about, then we find one of the things that no image-making medium can accomplish to the same degree.

Photography is an immediate action; drawing a meditation For me photography is to place head heart and eye along the same line of sight. It is a way of life.

The eyes sink to the heart to make the art.

When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in Brassai’s lifelong photographic exploration of Paris – its people, places, and things.

Do not see with just your eyes. If so, you are simply turning yourself into another machine. See with your heart and not with your eyes.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

No matter what camera you use, it is not the camera but your artistic eyes who makes the photograph.

I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer.

Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves that others see. It has often been proved on the witness stand that no two people ever see the same accident precisely the same way. We see through different eyes and from different angles. But if we could see things as other people see them, we could come closer to knowing why they do what they do and why they say what they say.

The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.

We are seeing many technically efficient people coming out of this digital shift, but the creative eye is something you cannot manufacture. 3-1-2010