"Ways of Seeing" Quotes
"An exploration of visual culture and the ways in which we perceive art and images in society."
art | 176 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.
Men act and women appear.
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
Every image embodies a way of seeing.
The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe.
Publicity images create glamour by flattering the spectator.
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
The past is never there waiting to be discovered, to be recognized for exactly what it is.
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past.
