Quotes About Vision

If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.

Our role is to imagine products that don't exist and guide them to life.

I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward.

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.

Hard-bitten had a double meaning: bitten hard by life, like her, or clamping meanly down on other people. But, as though belying his thoughts, she said, "I hope your days are good." "If only. My eyes, you know, are like Swiss cheese, the doctor says. I see through the holes.

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

The dream shall never die.

Tell it like it never really was and maybe we'll see it like it is.

For example, if you were nearsighted and had never heard of nearsightedness, and for years you had thought your blurry vision and subsequent learning problems were due to lack of effort or moral turpitude, imagine your relief in discovering that there was this condition called nearsightedness, and it had nothing to do with effort or morality, but rather was a neurological condition. So it is with ADD.

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper. the photographer begins with the finished product

Imagination is the vehicle for the soul.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Vision without money means heartaches; with money, it means achievement; and that means power; and that means money; and that means achievement; and so on, over and over and over.

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

We all are blind until we seeThat in the human planNothing is worth the making ifIt does not make the man. Why build these cities gloriousIf man unbuilded goes?In vain we build the world, unlessThe builder also grows.