Quotes About Vision

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

Lying on his back, he gazed up now into the high, cloudless sky. "Do I not know that that is infinite space, and that it is not a round arch? But, however I screw up my eyes and strain my sight, I cannot see it not round and not bounded, and in spite of my knowing about infinite space, I am incontestably right when I see a solid blue dome, and more right than when I strain my eyes to see beyond it.

One needs a vision of the promised land in order to have the strength to move.

A MAN IN MOTION always devises an aim for that motion. To be able to go a thousand miles he must imagine that something good awaits him at the end of those thousand miles. One must have the prospect of a promised land to have the strength to move

Ma tu mi dici: entra nella nostra confraternita e noi ti indicheremo lo scopo della vita, la missione dell'uomo, le leggi che governano il mondo. Ma noi chi siamo? Siamo uomini. Perché voi dovreste sapere tutto? Come mai io soltanto non vedrei quello che vedete voi? Voi vedere sulla terra il regno del bene e della verità, ma io non lo vedo.

the most experienced and skilful painter-technician would be unable, for all his mechanical ability, to paint anything unless the boundaries of the content were first revealed to him.

Il est doux de rêver à un idéal et de le bâtir dans sa pensée. Mais c'est encore, à dire le vrai, fort peu de chose. Qu'est-ce qu'un idéal qui n'est qu'un jeu, ou mettons même un rêve très pur ? Il faut le bâtir, après cela, dans l'existence.

Too many writers start with a good idea and carry it through the first chapters, then fall apart because they had no idea where the top of the mountain was in the first place.

To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.

Then it turned into a game. Games are nature's most beautiful creation. All animals play games, and the truly Messianic vision of the brotherhood of creatures must be based on the idea of the game, indeed-

By the eyes, some will say, but I think not, really, for to the spectral tarsier in the bush, or to the owl in the churchyard tower, man and his lights must truly hold a demonic menace.

The gardener quickly reached for his spectacles and squinted at the carriage in the distance.

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions.

The eye that sees is not a mere physical organ but a means of perception conditioned by the tradition in which its possessor has been reared.    ââ'¬â€RUTH BENEDICT

A vision without a task makes a visionary; a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision with a task makes a missionary.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

If you are in a condition of inferiority, I think it affects you very much creatively. You have incredible visions but you might be too bashful to show them. Your creativity becomes inhibited. I've always found women as individuals as stupid or as intelligent as men. I've never had any reason to find them otherwise.

The long tentacles of vision and understanding have withdrawn and all that is left to me is the ragged black hole of my loss. Loss and the world around. A noisy puzzle whose solution is another puzzle noisier and more stupid. The circle widens toward nothing. The answer is hiding somewhere, if I could only read.

There is nothing that can excite the man more than the vision of a beautiful, passionate and cruel tyrant who changes her lovers arrogantly and without remorse

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.