John Ruskin
[Artist, writer and poet, b. 1819, London, d. 1900, Coniston Water, England.]
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to
see something, and tell what it
saw in a plain way... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one.
Diane Arbus
[Photographer, b. 1923, New York, d. 1971, New York.]
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.
Bernard-Henri Lévy
[Writer and critic, b. 1948, Béni Saf, Algeria, lives in St-Paul-de-Vence, France.]
No one wants to see; no one wants to hear. We have to force them to see it, then. There has to be a terrorism of the gaze.
Duane Michals
[Photographer, b. 1932, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, lives in New York.]
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
Ad Reinhardt
[Artist, b. 1913, Buffalo, New York, d. 1967, New York.]
The eye is a menace to clear sight.
Luigi Ghirri
[Photographer, b. 1943, Scandiano, Italy, d. 1992, Reggio Emilia, Italy.]
I have always felt that photography is a language for seeing and not for transforming, hiding, or modifying reality.
Wim Wenders
[Artist and filmmaker, b. 1945, Düsseldorf, lives in Berlin.]
I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.
Paul Strand
[Photographer, b. 1890, New York, d. 1976, Oregeval, France.]
No matter what lens you use, no matter what the speed of the film is, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you see.
