Quotes About Vision

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Build therefore your own world.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

To the illuminated mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.

One idea lights a thousand candles.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

We are never tired so long as we can see far enough.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams

Man hopes, genius creates

The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. They admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are not mine, but God's; they had the like, and were not disobedient to the heavenly vision

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough

Turn the eye upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture, though you have seen it any time these twenty years!

An idea lights a thousand candles.

The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

As the eyes of Lyncaeus were said to see through the earth, so the poet turns the world to glass, and shows us all things in their right series and procession.

Build therefore your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine