Quotes About Vision

Don't work bit by bit, but paint everything at once by placing tones everywhere. —CAMILLE PISSARRO

It is our job to follow the impulse, or vision, placed in our hearts at birth and then to release that impulse into the unseen hand of the Beloved for manifestation.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.

But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.

An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.

The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees.

Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.

Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies.

Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science.

Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision.

Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose.

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

L'imagination est la reine du vrai, et le possible est une des provinces du vrai. Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.