Quotes About Vision

If only I have right of seeing In this wilderness of being And from the vision glorious Must come back to my lonely house.

As the eyes of Lyncæus 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.

Non essere spinto dai tuoi problemi. Lasciati guidare dai tuoi sogni.

The ray of light passes invisible through space, and only when it falls on an object is it seen.

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.

Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively our image of memory and hope.

There is a property inside the horizon which no guy has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, this is, the poet.

the power of a lens is incredible.

We see through a glass darkly because all we want is to be comfortable.

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

The ideas will follow me. When they're off-guard, and ready to be born, I'll turn around and grab them.

Douglas opened one eye. And everything, absolutely everything, was there. The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.

That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.

They got Indian vision and can sight back further than you and me will ever sight ahead.

In most cases I don't even know the metaphors lay waiting to be printed off my retina.

Let us remain childlike and not childish in our 20-20 vision, borrowing such telescopes, rockets, or magic carpets as may be needed to hurry us along to miracles of physics as well as dream.

No man is as big as his own idea.

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow.

And still, strangely, they were not past the carnecería. The vision of red horror was on their left as they paced steadily forward on the hot tile sidewalk. The things that hung from hooks looked like brutalities and sins, like bad consciences, evil dreams, like gored flags and slaughtered promises. The redness, oh, the hanging, evil-smelling wetness and redness, the hooked and hung-high carcasses, unfamiliar, unfamiliar.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the furthest of the two!

What does your character want, what is his dream, what shape has it, and how expressed?

Ray Bradbury

Si on ne peut avoir la réalité, autant se réfugier dans le rêve.