Eye Quotes

The thickness of a branch is never diminished in the space there is between one leaf and another except by as much as the thickness of the eye that is above the leaf, and this thickness is lacking in the branch up to the next leaf.

The reason of this is that if you look at the movement of the wateryour eye will not be able to fix on anything, but its action is as that of things seen in your shadow when you are walking; for if the eyeat-tempt to distinguish the nature of the shadow, the wisps of strawor other things contained in it appear of rapid movement and it seems that these are much more swift to flee from the said shadow than the shadow is to proceed.

The eye which finds itself in the centre between the shadows and the lights that surround the shaded bodies, will see in these bodies thegreater shadows that are in them meeting themselves within equal angles that is of the visual incidence.

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

Observe the light and consider its beauty. Blink your eye and look at it. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is there no more.

All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.

There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies everything placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

When we face with a steady eye the difficulties which lie before us, we may derive new confidence from remembering those we have already overcome.

Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

If you keep your eye on the profit, you're going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.