Quotes About Vision

Nothing can exceed in beauty and in vision-inducing power the mosaics of gardens and buildings in the great Omayyad mosque at Damascus.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescaline, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is biologically or socially useful. A little of the knowledge belonging to Mind at Large oozes past the reducing valve of brain and ego, into his consciousness.

No recorded vision is perfect, of high visions, for the seer must keep either his physical organs or his memory in working order. And neither is capable. There is no bridge. One can only be conscious of one thing at a time, and as the consciousness moves nearer to the vision, it loses control of the physical and mental.

Que se ha cansado de ver siempre los mismos colores y se ha vendado los ojos una temporada para olvidarlos y pensar otros nuevos.

El arte no es cosa de experiencia; es cosa de imaginación. Javier de Maistre hacía viajes maravillosos alrededor de su cuarto; Beethoven era sordo; Milton cuando escribió el canto a la luz, estaba ciego.

If we are to dream of things impossible, let's dream big.

Improvvisamente vide ciò che pensava invisibile. La fine del mondo.

seeing in the air things that the others did not see.

Dans les yeux des gens, on vois ce qu'ils verront, pas ce qu'ils ont vu

En los ojos de la gente puede verse lo que verán, no lo que han visto.

Negli occhi della gente si vede quello che vedranno, non quello che hanno visto. Così, diceva: quello che vedranno.

We shall change all that...because it is possible to change the world, if one is determined enough, and if one sees with sufficient clarity just what has to be changed.

I am blessed and being blessed is something more than just having something. It is a state of mind in which the good of the world is illuminated, it's understood. It is as if one is vouchsafed a vision of some sort, a vision of love, of 'agape', of the essential value of each and every living thing.

it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.

because it is possible to change the world, if one is determined enough, and if one sees with sufficient clarity just what it is that has to be changed.

I am blessed, and being blessed is something more than just having something; it is a state of mind in which the good of the world is illuminated, is understood. It is as if one is vouchsafed a vision of some sort, she thought, a vision of love, of agape, of the essential value of each and every living thing.

But then men do not see things the same way we do, she thought. They have different eyes.

And the same goes for other things," went on Mma Makutsi. "Hooks are the answer." Mma Ramotswe had a momentary vision of Mma Makutsi's house covered in hooks. Even her baby, Itumelang, would be suspended in a basket from a hook; and Phuti would have a hook too, a large, solid one, from which he would dangle by his collar, awaiting instructions from his wife.

That, she imagined, was because he had been given the eyes to see things, as we are given the eyes of those who have gone before us, and can see the world in the way in which they saw it.

It was the feeling, she imagined, that one had when vouchsafed a vision. Everything is changed, becomes more blessed, making the humblest of surroundings a holy place

Mr Pilai looked down. "Mma Ramotswe," he said. "Please let me look at you. I have just been given these new spectacles, and I can see the world clearly for the first time in years. Ow! It is a wonderful thing. I had forgotten what it was like to see clearly. And there you are, Mma. You are looking very beautiful, very fat.

Even though are canvass was small, still we could paint a masterpiece.

I gaze forward without fear.

Upon the brink of the wild stream / He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.