A Quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson

With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Closed Eye Looks Open Other Within Without

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Henri Cartier-Bresson
French - Photographer
August 22, 1908 - August 3, 2004

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

Robert Frost

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

Robert Smith

The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the emotions, sensibilities, and affections, in the mouth. The animals look for man's intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye.

Hiram Powers

One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

Brandon Mull

Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven.

James McCosh

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

Bill Cosby

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]

Alexander Pope

The first thing you do before you take a swing with a driver is put it down and see how it looks to your eye. If you don't like how it looks, it's going to be difficult to hit a good shot.

Xander Schauffele

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.

Charles Dickens

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

Winston Churchill

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

Carl Jung

The great and secret message of the experiential mystics the world over is that, with the eye of contemplation, Spirit can be seen. With the eye of contemplation, the great Within radiantly unfolds. And in all cases, the eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you: the eye of contemplation.