Quotes About Vision

Well, if you're not a man in glasses standing in front of me with a tape recorder going like this, I can't see anything. But if you are, then I see perfectly well.

I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?

Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight.

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

Man, we've got something special. Don't screw it up.

All men start life as a road-user and only few continue it as a road-creator!

A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!

The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.

It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.

The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there

All men are creative but few are artists.

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.

Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.