It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
—Anaïs Nin
Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.
—Jeffrey Eugenides in Middlesex
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
—Mark Twain
What is art but a way of seeing?
—Saul Bellow
There is a difference between saying goodbye and letting go. Goodbye is not permanent. You can meet years later and share what happened in your life. You can smile and laugh about all the nonsense that you both went through. However, letting go is being okay with never seeing this person ever again…being okay with never knowing how their life turned out…being okay with fifty or more years of silence…being okay with running into that person at a grocery store and having them not acknowledge your presence. This is the part of life that doesn't sit well with me and never will. It tears my heart in pieces, robs me of gratitude, drains me of anything positive and eats at the faith that holds on.
—Shannon L. Alder
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
—Pablo Picasso
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
—Groucho Marx
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
—Ralph Hodgson
Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt
When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them.
—Tana French in The Likeness
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
—Pierre Bonnard
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
—Ansel Adams
Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.
—Aldous Huxley in Island