Top Optical Quotes
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
Josef Albers
The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.
James Rainwater
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.
Robert Musil
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Marcel Proust
Douglas Sirk 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Marcel Proust 
Bridget Riley 
Robert Musil 
Josef Albers 
James Rainwater All Optical Quotes
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
72% of people like this quote
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
Josef Albers
62% of people like this quote
The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.
James Rainwater
54% of people like this quote
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.
Robert Musil
53% of people like this quote
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Marcel Proust
53% of people like this quote
If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.
Douglas Sirk
52% of people like this quote
You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
David Hockney
51% of people like this quote
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
James Patrick Murray
47% of people like this quote
Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.
Bridget Riley
45% of people like this quote