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Quotes About Mind's eye

I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.
~ John Lurie
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
~ Shana Alexander
What do you think vision is?" she asked him. "You don't see a fraction of the things that surround you, and at least half the things you do see are deceptive. Hell, color doesn't even exist outside your own head. Vision's just plain wrong; it only persists because it works. If you're going to dismiss the idea of God, you better stop believing your own eyes in the bargain.
~ Peter Watts
Floaters swarmed through his eyeballs like schools of panicked fish.
~ Peter Watts
Background scores allow me an absolute flight of the imagination, and I travel in my mind's eye. I do not like the scores to have vocal notes, because they act as a limitation to these flights of fancy.
~ Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Mis sueños son como la vigilia de ustedes
~ Jorge Luís Borges
If you keep your eyes closed, your mind will show you all kinds of crazy movies...But with your eyes open, all you had to face was the nothingness of what you were really doing.
~ Adam Johnson
I've been blind in my mind since the age of three.
~ Mike May
La strada sarebbe stata lunga. Tutte le strade che portano dove il cuore desidera sono lunghe. Ma questa strada l'occhio della mia mente poteva vederla su una carta, professionalmente, con tutte le difficoltà e complicazioni tecniche. In fondo tutto si riduceva a questo. O si é marinai o non lo si é. Ed io dubitavo di non esserlo.
~ Joseph Conrad
It is just as easy to imagine yourself successful, as it is to imagine failure, and far more interesting." Joseph is a dreamer, and a dreamer of dreams; this means he has visions, images, and ideals in his mind, and knows that there is a Creative Power which responds to his mental pictures.
~ Joseph Murphy
Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Memory uses the filling-in trick, but imagination is the filling-in trick
~ Daniel M. Gilbert
The chaos of events in the Inner Court still raged in her mind, like one of those fever dreams where image upon disjointed image pile up before the mind's eye in a nauseating, strobing mass that doesn't even have the saving grace of dream logic.
~ Dave Stone
cloudbursts of memory and hallucination crashing in on me from all sides
~ Donna Tartt
The camera can photograph thought.
~ Dirk Bogarde
The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
~ Marianne Faithfull
Who needs eyes when you can hallucinate?
~ Raymond Pettibon
Seconds slowed and passed before Nicholas's mind's eye like a parade of snails upon the garden path.
~ Raymond E. Feist
People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate.
~ Nadar
Imagination is a process of seeing events or things with the minds eye.
~ Debasish Mridha
Learn to read deeply. It will slowly open your mind's eye, and will be able to see the secret beauty of the universe and understand its deeper essence.
~ Debasish Mridha
Everyone has beautiful eyes but they often see ugliness not the beauty of life.
~ Debasish Mridha