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We see parts of each other, and we put them together. But if I want to see you in totality, you need to move away; we need space between us. Across the street, I can see all of you at once, but then I also see this huge vista of space surrounding you, coming in and compressing you.

— Diego Giacometti

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

To see yourself, and for others to see you, is a form of validation. I'm interested in that very mysterious and mystical way we relate to each other in the world.

— Mickalene Thomas

Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.

— Mos Def

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

— Amber Valletta

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

— Michael Moschen

In real life, that's how we're moving around. We look at things while we're walking and moving and turning around. We stare at objects in the world.

— Brendan Iribe

In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all.

— Michel Faber

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Seeing comes from the inside, from the heart, from life's experiences.

— Ruth Bernhard

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

— Rene Magritte

✗Opposing Perspectives

If I'm talking to you, I can't see you, but I can see inside of you and what you're thinking. That's a mixed blessing.

— The Mighty Hannibal