#Sight Quotes

“The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.”

“I would that I were an old beggarRolling a blind pearl eye,For he cannot see my ladyGo gallivanting by.”

“Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and come down-you don't hear nothing; you see the ax go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k'chunk!-it had took all that time to come over the water.”

“The eye is the jewel of the body.”

“Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.”

“Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.”

“Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.”

“It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.”

“It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”

“Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.”