Paul Valery Quotes About Eyes

• Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse. All criticism is dominated by the outworn theory that the man is the cause of the work as in the eyes of the law the criminal is the cause of the crime. Far rather are they both the effects.

  Paul Valery

  Arte, Ojo, Hombres

  "Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci". Book by Paul Valery, 1895.

• A los ojos de esos amantes de la perfección, una obra nunca está terminada -palabra que para ellos no tiene sentido-, sino abandonada; y este abandono, ya sea ante las llamas o ante el público (y que es el resultado del cansancio o de una obligación de entrega) es para ellos una especie de accidente, como la ruptura de un reflejo, que el cansancio, la irritación o algo parecido ha vuelto inútil.

  Paul Valery

  Eye, Reflection, Irritation

  "Collected Works", vol. 1,("Recollection"), 1972.

• Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.

  Paul Valery

  Photography, Eye, Thanks

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