John Berger. The art of seeing (№ 396018)

We see only what we look. And to watch is to make a choice. The result of the choice made what we see, is made available to us (but not necessarily physically available). To touch anything means to engage with this subject in some relationships. (Eyes closed, walk around the room and notice how touch is like vision, but only static, limited.) We never look just at one thing, we look at the relations between things and us. Our vision is active, it is movable, it keeps things in the space around itself, it says everything that there is for us such what we are.
Shortly after we begin to see, we realize that we can see. This strange sight is connected with our own look to our identity as the visible world has become quite undeniable.