“Hey! What are you looking at? Don’t you see that it’s about you?”

Zen ni kike (To you) (Tokyo: Daihorinkaku, 1987)

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Japanese zen Buddhist monk 1880–1965

Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) American painter

1956 - 1967
Source: the 'Ad Reinhardts Papers', Archives of American Art, microfilm no. N/69-103, frame no. 268

“Hey, son, what the hell is with your haircut? Did you see a paintbrush and say "I want that dude's look!"”

Trevor Noah (1984) South African comedian

13 April 2016 <br class="br">The Daily Show <br class="br">Source: Visible at 1:30 North Korea's Letter to America http://www.cc.com/video-clips/0zxgxu/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-north-korea-s-letter-to-america, CC.com, 13 aprile 2016.

“I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

“Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.”

Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist

letter to Ashok Arora, 4 January 1967, published in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (2005) p. 230

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

“When you look deeply into yourself you may be able to see that there is, in this moment, a quality of aliveness that is animating you that is not philosophical and is not abstract. It's independent of what you think about it, what you believe about it and what you feel about it. It's always there! it is animating your breath, It is coursing the spirit, it is what makes it possible for you to think and speak and see and hear.”

Alexis Karpouzos (1967)

Source: The self-criticism of science

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Variant: It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

“I look at you and I see a man because that’s what men are capable of—I don’t hunt for excuses because I don’t like to think that that’s how nasty we can get. We look at Sorry and we see reflections of ourselves. Hood take it, if we don’t like what we see.”

Steven Erikson book Gardens of the Moon

Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 4 (p. 124)

“…The music was evolving with society, and society, if you recall, there was a narcissism that entered society in the 80s. Saturday Night Fever, you know, hey! This whole LOOK, the LOOK about things, and the look almost became more important of the content…”

John McLaughlin (1942) guitarist, founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra

On music and society in the 1980s, as quoted in "John McLaughlin: Challenges to creative music", by The Snapshots Foundation, YouTube, Nov 8, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iubDTkT3Y4

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