“The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."”
Varnhagen von Ense's Memoirs.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
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“The eye — which sees all objects reversed — retains the images for some time.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
Context: The eye — which sees all objects reversed — retains the images for some time. This conclusion is proved by the results; because, the eye having gazed at light retains some impression of it. After looking (at it) there remain in the eye images of intense brightness, that make any less brilliant spot seem dark until the eye has lost the last trace of the impression of the stronger light.
“But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“Your eyes see what your brain expects to see…”
Optical Illusions (2017).
“The deaf eye sees what is invisible to the hearing eye.”
Source: As quoted in https://twitter.com/emilioinsolera/status/725116275349950465(April 26, 2016)
In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory, st. 12
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
Pages 12-13
Other writings, The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921)
Context: There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals. All their lives, forces which they do not recognize and cannot name, have been tugging at them — inherited instincts, traditional beliefs, acquired convictions; and the resultant is an outlook on life, a conception of social needs. … In this mental background every problem finds it setting. We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the less, we can never see them with any eyes except our own.
Source: 1969 - 1980, In: "Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper," 1987, p. unknown : 'Notes from 1969'
“Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be close.”
Source: Along for the Ride