“I shut my eyes in order to see.”

Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin - “I shut my eyes in order to see.” 1

Similar quotes

“Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.”

Roland Barthes
Read more

“We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.”

Franz Kafka
Read more

“There was nothing to see, nothing to distract me from succumbing to my fears, and the longer I kept my eyes shut, the more terribly I saw my fears wanted me to see.”

Paul Auster
Read more

“Shut your eyes and see.”

James Joyce
Read more

“Shutting my eyes, I dreamed in formulas.”

Yevgeny Zamyatin
Read more