T Quotes
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“The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface - transitions that are like music - are intangible in their reaction upon us. There is an immediate sensuous appeal!”
“The eye awakened is the eye in love.”
“The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.”
Source: Life and letters
“The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience frictions and ruptures, glide and drift. One moment, there will be nothing to look at and the next second the canvas seems to refill, to be crowded with visual events.”
Source: Working with colour: recent paintings and studies
“The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul or God) has neither caste nor race, Neither eyes, nor ears, nor hands, nor feet, Sages, this Self is infinite, present in the great and in the small, Everlasting and changeless, the source of life.”
“The eye condition that I have is Marfan's Syndrome.”
“The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does.”
“The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.”
“The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.”
“The eye etched into the centre of my palm seemed to watch me, calm and cunning as a cat, its slitted pupil wider than it'd been earlier that day. As if it adjusted to the light, as any ordinary eye would.
I scowled at it.
At whoever might be watching through that tattoo.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“The ‘eye for eye’ policy satisfies the logical mind but this policy is also equally impracticable. you may follow this policy against a person who is weaker than you. However, if the person is more powerful than you- like your boss, parents, government, the police-it would be disastrous to follow this policy as it may lead to your total ruin.”
Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
“The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.”
“The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.”
“The eye in this city acquires an autonomy similar to that of a tear. The only difference is that it doesn't sever itself from the body but subordinates it totally. After a while - on the third or fourth day here- the body starts to regard itself as merely the eye's carrier, as a kind of submarine to its now dilating, now squinting periscope. Of course, for all its targets, its explosions are invariably self-inflicted: it's own heart, or else your mind, that sinks; the eye pops up to the surface. This, of course, owes to local topography, to the streets - narrow, meandering like eels - that finally bring you to a flounder of a campo with a cathedral in the middle of it, barnacled with saints and flaunting its Medusa-like cupolas. No matter what you set out for as you leave the house here, you are bound to get lost in these long, coiling lanes and passageways that beguile you to see them through to follow them to their elusive end, which usually hits water, so that you can't even call it a cul-de-sac. On the map this city looks like two grilled fish sharing a plate, or perhaps like two nearly overlapping lobster claws ( Pasternak compared it to a swollen croissant); but it has no north, south, east, or west; the only direction it has is sideways. It surrounds you like frozen seaweed, and the more you dart and dash about trying to get your bearings, the more you get lost. The yellow arrow signs at intersections are not much help either, for they, too, curve. In fact, they don't so much help you as kelp you. And in the fluently flapping hand of the native whom you stop to ask for directions, the eye, oblivious to his sputtering, A destra, a sinistra, dritto, dritto, readily discerns a fish.”
Source: Watermark
“The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.”
Source: The nude: a study in ideal form
“The eye is a delicate instrument, but it is blind to half the universe—far more than half. The night sky is black, we say: between the stars is void and darkness. But turn the telescope-eye on that space between the stars, and lo, the stars! Stars too faint and far for the eye alone to see, rank behind rank, glory beyond glory, out to the uttermost boundaries of the universe. Beyond all imagination, in the outer darkness, there is light: a great glory of sunlight. I have seen it. I have seen it, night after night, and mapped the stars, the beacons of God on the shores of darkness. And here too there is light! There is no place bereft of the light, the comfort and radiance of the creator spirit. There is no place that is outcast, outlawed, forsaken. There is no place left dark. Where the eyes of God have seen, there light is. We must go farther, we must look farther! There is light if we will see it. Not with eyes alone, but with the skill of the hands and the knowledge of the mind and the heart's faith is the unseen revealed, and the hidden made plain. And all the dark earth shines like a sleeping star.”
Source: The Wind's Twelve Quarters
“The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.”
Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt
“The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately”
“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.”
Source: Mirror Mirror: A Novel
“The eye is bigger then the belly.
[The eye is bigger than the belly.]”
“The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.”
Source: I, Juan de Pareja
“The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance.”
Source: The Stones of Venice
“The eye is easily frightened.”
“The eye is inlet to the soul.”
“The eye is made to see and not to think.... A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee a surprise? We just have to be ready.”
“The eye is not a lake; still, it filled with tears.
The enemy is not a seed; still, it grows.
Character is not metal; still, it gets stained.
Dignity is not the body; still, it gets injured.
A human being is not the season; still, it changes.”
“The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.”
“The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1943-2004
“The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.”
Source: Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete
“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.”
“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!”
“The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.”
“The eye is the notebook of the poet.”
“The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.”
Source: Notebooks
“The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the emotions, sensibilities, and affections, in the mouth. The animals look for man's intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye.”
“The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man's intentions right into his eyes.”
“The eye is to light as the soul is to God.”
“The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.”
“The Eye Linc was watching shot upward twenty feet in a convulsive jerk, hung there for an instant, then started a wobbling decent. There were two holes in it. It skimmed the heads of the men, coming for Linc's group. Tears streamed out of the corners of it, dripping to the ground like a trail of rain. And as it neared Linc, blood started to come, seeping from the holes, mixed with fluid.”
Source: The Flying Eyes
“The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.”
Source: Character and characteristic men
“The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.”
“The eye of a man is never satisfied with seeing.”
“The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly’s wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does not even know it is chaste. The young maiden is only the glimmer of a dream and is not yet statue. Her alcove is hidden in the shadows of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of the eye desecrates this dim penumbra. Here, to gaze, is to profane.”
Source: Les Misérables
“The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.”
Source: Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
“The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.”
“The eye of God is inside us. It's looking through us and it sees whatever we look at. Sometimes I think we could give God better things to look at, don't you?”
“The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.”
“The eye of hurricane Ian was thirty miles wide!”