Gianni Sarcone: Eye

Gianni Sarcone is Italian author, artist, designer, and researcher in visual perception and cognitive psychology. Explore interesting quotes on eye.
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“Are the eyes an open door to the world, as poets say? Well, honestly, not really. The fact is, we see the world through a pair of tiny peepholes, the pupils of our eyes.”

Our brain functions as a highly creative ‘camera obscura’ – the forerunner of the modern photographic camera, named from the Latin for dark room.
Amazing Visual Illusions: Trick Your Mind and Feast Your Eyes (2011).

“Your eyes – those incredible jelly balls beneath your forehead – capture everything around you.”

They are sense organs allowing you to see, and they give more information about your surroundings than any of the other four senses: hearing, taste, touch and smell.
EyeBogglers (2012).

“The German poet Novalis said that the eye is a ‘superficial’ organ. That is indeed partly true.”

I will even add that it is an external organ: the eye with which we see the world is a part of the world itself. As soon as we open the eye, whup, the world pops in it!
Curiopticals (2009).

“Your eyes see what your brain expects to see…”

Optical Illusions (2017).