Eyebook: Sixty Artists. One Subject. Edited by Jenny Lynn

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EYEBOOK Sixty Artists. One Subject.

Edited by

JENNY LYNN


1535 Gregor Reisch, Structure of the eye.


Every Eye Sees differently. As the Eye — Such the Object. William Blake


I often draw one eye.

Vaslav Nijinsky


1918/19 Vaslav Nijinsky, The Eye


No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. Elizabeth Bowen


1928 RenĂŠ Magritte, The False Mirror


1932 Man Ray: The Tears (variant).


Oh! too convincing — dangerously dear — In woman’s eye the unanswerable tear! Lord Byron


1943 Jindrich Heisler, Objet


If the eye does not want to see, neither light nor glasses will help. German Proverb


For the Eye altering, alters all.

William Blake


1949 Salvador DalĂ­, El Ojo del Tiempo (The Eye of Time)


1970 Ed Ruscha, Eye



1977 Ray K. Metzker, from Pictus Interruptus


The eyes shout what the lips fear to say. William Henry


Eyes that do not cry, do not see. Swedish Proverb


1977 Roy Lichtenstein, Girl with Tear


The man who can't visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot. AndrĂŠ Breton


1981 Andy Warhol, Myths: The Star


1987 Gabriella Imperatori-Penn, The Eye (Histoire de l'oeil)


I shut my eyes in order to see. Paul Gauguin


1989 Yayoi Kusama, Eye


"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance, too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!" Lewis Carroll


1993 Nobuyoshi Araki, from Erotos


'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen – For what listen they? John Keats


1991 William Wegman, Eyewear


Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Margaret Wolfe Hungerford


1995 Elaine Lustig Cohen, Venus


Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. William Shakespeare



2004 Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Seeing through you)


There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball. Norwood Russell Hanson


2005 Alan Rath, Mini Watcher


Maybe that's what life is, a wink of the eye, and winking stars... Jack Kerouac


2008 Elsha Leventis, Black Eye 1


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