EYEBOOK
Sixty Artists. One Subject.
JENNY LYNN
1535 Gregor Reisch, Structure of the eye.
Every Eye Sees differently. As the Eye — Such the Object. William Blake
An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance with joy. Ralph Waldo Emerson
1622 Jusepe de Ribera, Study of Eyes
1844 Joseph Sacco, Eye of a Young Woman
The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake. Leonardo da Vinci
c. 1865 Pierre-Louis Pierson, Scherzo di Follia (Game of Madness)
...I saw, close up, unending eyes watching themselves in me as in a mirror; I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me... Jorge Luis Borges
Looking on oneself as something alien, forgetting the sight, remembering the gaze. Franz Kafka
1882 Odilon Redon The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity
I often draw one eye.
Vaslav Nijinsky
1918/19 Vaslav Nijinsky, The Eye
...what is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. Walt Whitman
1921 Francis Picabia, L'Oeil Cacodylate (The Cacodylic Eye)
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. Elizabeth Bowen
1928 RenĂŠ Magritte, The False Mirror