Quotes About Vision

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

In action, be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.

Each of us is an artist, capable of conceiving and creating a vision from the depths of our being.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it.

Boredom is simply the lack of imagination.

Give us men to match our mountains, Give us men to match our plains: Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity.

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

You can't have genius without patience.