Quotes About Vision

Perhaps some realization came to her that, after all, it was better to have, like Anne, the vision and the faculty divine, that gift which the world cannot bestow or take away, of looking at life through some transfiguring, or revealing, medium, whereby everything seemed appareled in celestial light, wearing a glory and a freshness not visible to those who, like herself and Charlotta the IV, looked at things only through prose.

We would reach the far-off divine event and look out thence to the aerial spires of our City of Fulfillment.

Quando si usa l'immaginazione, tanto vale pensare in grande

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

Nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye.

Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye to that of a normal eye. Where a normal eye will see something clearly articulated, a weak eye will see a blurred patch of colour.

Ma un poeta può anche non badare a queste cose, che son di fatto. Un poeta può veder le stelle anche quando non si vedono, e viceversa poi non vedere tant'altre cose, che tutti gli altri vedono.

I had no particular purpose in mind, which was never a good way to do things.

She gazed right through it to the future, another time and place without this jangling cascade of arbitrary noise.

Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner version which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.

We live our lives in the eye of God, and not at the periphery but at the center of His vision, His concern.

The owl," he was saying, "is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps. They can see in the dark. I find that so interesting, to be mired in reality when the rest of the world is dreaming. What does he see and what does he know that the rest of the world is missing?

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of his youth.

His eyes, blind to external reality but highly perceptive in the realm of the inner life, rose from the book to the ceiling and returned to the book.

concluo que um dos ofícios do homem é fechar e apertar muito os olhos, e ver se continua pela noite velha o sonho truncado na noite moça.

God save you, dear reader, from an idée fixe, better a speck, a mote in the eye

São olhos refletidos

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

Look at my glasses. I can't even see that there are any stars in the sky without them, but it's not the glasses that are doing the seeing, it's me, Madeleine. I don't think Father's eyes are seeing now, but he is. And maybe his brain isn't thinking, but a brain's just something to think through, the way my glasses are something to see through.

When we are writing or painting or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions and opened to a wider world, where colours are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.

Gregory of Nyssa points out that Moses's vision of God began with the light, with the visible burning bush, the bush which was bright with fire and was not consumed; but afterwards, God spoke to him in a cloud. After the glory which could be seen with human eyes, he began to see the glory which is beyond and after light. The shadows are deepening all around us.

Maybe the job of the artist is to see through all of this strangeness to what really is, and that takes a lot of courage and a strong faith in the validity of the artistic vision even if there is not a conscious faith in God.