Round spectacles rest on a mossy branch, reflecting a green meadow in one lens and a golden sunset in the other.

Original artwork, not a still

"Thoughts on Taste," Edinburgh Magazine, (October 1818)

William Hazlitt

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

We don't take in the natural world through our eyes alone. What we see is colored by what we understand and what we feel, so the same landscape can look very different depending on the mind and heart looking at it.

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