New Orts #54
January 26 MMXXV
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
— Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
— Edward Hopper (1882-1967)
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
— Victor Hugo
To look at a thing is quite different from seeing a thing. One does not see any thing until one sees its beauty.
— Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
— Thoreau, Journal, August 5 1851
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

I see!
These are great !! Thanks so much.
Sharon