Quotes About Unseen

As a director I like to be very invisible. I don't like to be noticed.

Filmmaking is not about what we see - it's a very misconceived notion; it's about what we don't see.

What's extraordinary about Cobra Mist, and so much of what went on at Orford, was that the public were completely oblivious to it.

It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.

There are marvelous utilities, infinite good and unspeakable beauties in the great cosmic intelligence, the unseen world, ready for our use and enjoyment. If we only had sufficient faith to believe they were there we could draw them to ourselves.

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. You lost life's secret.

You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

Religion does not help me. The faith that others give to what is unseen, I give to what one can touch, and look at. My gods dwell in temples made with hands; and within the circle of actual experience is my creed made perfect and complete: too complete, it may be, for like many or all of those who have placed their heaven in this earth, I have found in it not merely the beauty of heaven, but the horror of hell also.

There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard.

He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing.

But have you not met people in your dreams you never saw before? In dreams or out? Sure. And who were they? I dont know. Dream people.

for what could be said to occur unobserved?

Farid had brought an invisible guest with him. Fear.

Everyone is small at night.

Sometimes we can be helpful in ways that are not totally obvious

Like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was not aware of the great desert tracts in his consciousness.

That coincidence is God's way of staying invisible?

I believe that much unseen is also here.

Beautiful dripping fragments—the negligent list of one after another, as I happen to call them to me, or think of them, The real poems, (what we call poems being merely pictures,) The poems of the privacy of the night, and of men like me, This poem, drooping shy and unseen, that I always carry, and that all men carry

And while I paus'd it came to me that what he really sang for was not there only, Nor for his mate nor himself only, nor all sent back by the echoes, But subtle, clandestine, away beyond, A charge transmitted and gift occult for those being born.

What made Leonardo a genius, what set him apart from people who are merely extraordinarily smart, was creativity, the ability to apply imagination to intellect. His facility for combining observation with fantasy allowed him, like other creative geniuses, to make unexpected leaps that related things seen to things unseen. "Talent hits a target that no one else can hit," wrote the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. "Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Fred McLaren's terrific book, Silent and Unseen: On Patrol in Three Cold War

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Grief doesn't have a face.