That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision.
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see. Paul Cezanne
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. Walter Benjamin
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. Claude Debussy
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us. Richard Whately
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry. Christopher Wren
