Quotes About Vision

I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to come together in your life.

I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I would love to do.

Don't make hope your business plan. —MARY CHRISTENSEN

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

Weaved a different story in my head Painted it like glitter in the swamp

The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds all around us is an essential feature of our world.

The world has need of dreamers as well as shoemakers.

In creative work — creative work of all kinds — those who are the world's working artists are not trying to help the world go around, but forward.

only if there are angels in your head will you ever, possibly, see one.

My responsibility is not to the ordinary, or the timely. It does not include mustard, or teeth. It does not extend to the lost button, or the beans in the pot. My loyalty is to the inner vision, whenever and howsoever it may arrive.

I try to remember when time's measure painfully chafes, for instance when autumn flares out at the last, boisterous and like us longing to stay - how everything lives, shifting from one bright vision to another, forever in these momentary pastures.

At first they were just clouds like any other. Then they swelled and swirled; then they hung very still; then they broke open. This is, I suppose, just one of the common miracles, a transformation, not a vision, not an answer, not a proof, but I put it there, close against my heart, where the need is, and it serves the purpose

My loyalty is to the inner vision, whenever and howsoever it may arrive. If I have a meeting with you at the three o'clock, rejoice if I am late. Rejoice even more if I do not arrive at all. There is no other way work of artistic worth can be done ... The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

There was only this – an idea.

To be a truly great artist, you must learn to combine your observations with your imagination.

Jack shivered. He wiped raindrops off his glasses.

I wish to work miracles. - from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

I get ideas for my paintings from everything! I look at a watermark on a wall and see an old woman's face. I look at a food stain on my tablecloth and see a horse! I study rain puddles and rocks and see oceans and mountains! (p.36)

a great artist has to combine observation with imagination. (p. 78)

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie....

Knowledge, I suppose, blocked the gates of vision.

Remember, I am not recording the vision of a madman. The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens, than that which I now affirm is true. Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the discovery were distinct and probable. After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams.... A place of peace and harmony... that's the kind of land I invision.