#sees

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#against #ancestors #because #becomes #boots

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#duchess #earth #nothing #peasant #sees

The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#artist #aware #genuine #go #life

It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make a skilful use of the Book of Chronicles has to tell about the tabernacle. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#appears #author #bold #book #chronicles

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#first #how #industry #meet #perception

I think most of America is seeing the strings behind the campaign, and sees the crass political maneuvers that people are making. I mean, they're extremely apparent to me. ↗

— Danny Strong

#apparent #behind #campaign #extremely #i

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#back #book #comes #doing #goes

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#actually #bodies #destroyed #ever #individual

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him. ↗

— Caspar David Friedrich

#him #nothing #painting #sees #should

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. ↗

— Caspar David Friedrich

#front #him #himself #inside #only