Quotes About Vision

The future is a convenient place for dreams

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. Nothing exists except that which is imagined.

La utopía es el principio de todo progreso y el diseño de un futuro mejor.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

Hope is not a plan

as in Welles' pictures (or in Renoir's) through depth of focus but by virtue of a diabolic speed of vision which seems for the first time to be wedded here to the pure rhythm of attention. Undoubtedly all good editing takes this into consideration. The traditional device of shot-reverse-shot divides up the dialogue according to an elementary syntax of interest.

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

FOREWORD by François Truffaut

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

The truth can only be seen when you close your eyes to reason and surrender yourself to dreams.

The imaginary is that which tends to become real.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

Eyes exist in the savage state.

How lovely it is to dream while you are awake. Dream while you're awake, Andre. Anybody can dream while they're asleep, but you need to dream all the time, and say our dreams out loud, and believe in them.

A positive vision is what keeps us going despite the misfortunes and setbacks that fill our lives. The sole disadvantage is that it stops us to seeing evil.

President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.

Because he knew money was power. And because he, however he came upon the idea, knew that there would have to be someone to make a change in the distant future.

No road map, no manifesto, no vision from the climate movement - and it has its fair share of radicals - ever sketched anything like the meteor storm of state interventions that hit the planet in March 2020, and yet we were always told that we were being unrealistic, unpragmatic, dreamers or alarmists. Never again should such lies be given a hearing.

Every one of us has the ability to dream, Fewer can turn dreams into reality.

Every one of us has the ability to dream, fewer can turn dreams into reality Andreas Simic

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.