#see

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#down #heads #i #neither #nor

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. ↗

— Stefan Banach

#better #between #find #mathematician #notice

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#entirely #happy #loved #make #seeks

Every man should see the birth of his children. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#children #every #every man #his #man

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#desire #desperate #hostility #i #i can

In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for. ↗

— Alice Barrett

#be grateful #difficult #difficult times #grateful #hard

If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward. ↗

— Todd Barry

#backward #blow #five #kiss #me

See into life, don't just look at it. ↗

— Anne Baxter

#just #life #look #see

We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#deal #first #first thing #issues #look