Quotes About Vision

To triumph in battle and be universally acclaimed 'Expert' is not the acme of skill, for to lift an autumn down requires no great strength; to distinguish between the sun and moon is no test of vision; to hear the thunderclap is no indication of acute hearing.

The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

Although they sometimes claim objectivity, historians are the most subjective of all writers. Hidden behind the thousands of facts unearthed by research, they safely arrange the world to reflect their own vision.

Rending me is an insight rendered by Mark Doty: "death's deep in the structure of things, and we didn't put it there." The vision of dying as a disarmed surrender imbued Rilke with the conviction that "We need, in love, to practice only this: / letting each other go," a difficult discipline because of the uniqueness of each living creature.

I had this vision of the two of us holding hands or getting into some light petting behind shower curtains or up in the fencing aisle or some shit.

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes.

Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.

It is felt that there is something morally wrong with the abstract of reality offered by photography; that one has no right to experience the suffering of others at a distance, denuded of its raw power; that we pay too high a human (or moral) price for those hitherto admired qualities of vision - the standing back from the aggressiveness of the world which frees us for observation and for elective attention.

Para ser legítima como arte, la fotografía debe cultivar la noción del fotógrafo como auteur, y de que todas las fotografías realizadas por el mismo individuo configuran un corpus.

Yes, eyes are special. But besides the eyes of the flesh, which are mostly water, there are the secret eyes. Don't you know, that you can really see? In a way most people can't. And that most of what people are looking at is just debris.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. - Susan Sontag

La fotografía es, antes que nada, una manera de mirar. No es la mirada misma

Things will change, Father. They must. And art can help create the change.

Sadness is thick, like a heavy fog that clouds your vision so you can't see any of the good things around you. But grief is something else. It's not fog, it's a storm. It rages inside you, tearing at your organs, pulling at your heart, lungs, skin, until they feel like they are going to rip wide open, exposing the most delicate parts of you, leaving them bloody and raw.

It's hard to leave a dream behind if you don't have a new one to move toward.

My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only to abandon them due to a lack of time, talent or inclination.

the best ideas are big ideas that come straight from your gut, not your head. Ideas that give you big feelings.

When you internalize an author whose vision or philosophy is both rich and out of fashion, you gain a certain immunity from the pressures of the contemporary. The modern world, with it's fads, propaganda, and advertising, is forever trying to herd us into conformity. Great literature can help us to remain fad-proof.

You must distance yourself from the past if you want to realize your specific ideal."

It is only when we are blinded by a narrow conceptual view of the world that life can seem meaningless.

Unfettered thinking generates the thousand. Analytical thinking helps us see the one that works.

Dreams come a size too big so that we may grow into them.

He must have given up on image making because his eyes had failed to see something they had yearned for; his mind had failed to capture whatever it had hoped, and that probing gaze perhaps expressed alarm at the emptying of his vision, at the dissolution of the things see, observed, into a meaningless vastness.