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Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures. -- Gyorgy Kepes
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I was fascinated with optical illusions. -- Temple Grandin
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one. -- Bridget Riley
There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion. -- Jenna Marbles
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting. -- Josef Albers
The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting. -- James Rainwater
There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less than what you can get, for example, from optical fiber. -- Vint Cerf
Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive. -- David Hewson
If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason. -- Douglas Sirk
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. -- Marcel Proust
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture. -- Robert Musil
You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era. -- David Hockney
I think that, you know, looking at all the systems that I've been studying over the last several years, that paper ballots with a precinct optical scan counters and random audits is the best system that we can have. -- Avi Rubin
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. -- James Patrick Murray
Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo. -- Jerry Saltz
I've never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But I have learnt how to give myself a bit of waist by optical illusion. For this, bring on the belts. -- Twiggy
To get high data transfer rates in communicating information, you would love to use optical fibers. The problem is that light is extremely hard to manipulate. So we make a perfect copy of the information carried by the light. We transfer it to matter - the condensate. -- Lene Hau
It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does. -- Peter Jackson
The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight. -- Daniel Gilbert
Every period has its own optical focus. -- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Our separation from each other is an optical illusion. -- Albert Einstein
There are optical illusions in time as well as space. -- Marcel Proust
Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one. -- Bridget Riley
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. -- Victor Hugo
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion -- Donna J. Haraway
Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion. -- Henry van de Velde
We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes. -- Alexander Rodchenko
There's no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion. -- Jenna Marbles
Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is -- Jodi Picoult
The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness. -- Albert Einstein
What you see with the eyes of faith is more real than what you see with your optical eyes. -- Chris Oyakhilome
Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think. -- Paul Cezanne
Infrastructure should not only be about Highways but also about Information Highways! The way ahead lies in creating optical fibre networks. -- Narendra Modi
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. -- Carl Sagan
Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world. -- Tom Holt
I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool! -- Sylvia Plath
We need to embrace the change that digital connectivity can bring. Now, towns will come alongside places where optical fibre network is present. -- Narendra Modi
The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light. -- Rudolf Arnheim
It is my conviction that highways and I-ways have similar importance these days. My effort is to connect all 600,000 villages with optical fiber networks in the next five years. -- Narendra Modi
The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue. -- Berenice Abbott
Every guild and trade has its own...private patriotism, which makes it resent all rebellion from within and all competition or criticism from without. ...Vested Interests. The manufacture of optical glass... -- Aldous Huxley
An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations. So that light does not exist for the painter. -- Paul Cezanne

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