When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Seeing comes from the inside, from the heart, from life's experiences.
Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
The soul of man is one of those subtle and evanescent substances that, as long as they remain still, the organ of sight does not remark; it must become agitated to become visible.