Quotes About Vision

Not everyone can see his dreams come true in the same way.

I'm like everyone else - I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.

Know what you want and try to go beyond your own expectations....set a very high goal, one that will be difficult to achieve. Because that is an artist's mission: to go beyond one's limits. An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

If you can dream, you can do.

You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.

She had lost her innocent vision of justice early in her career, and had come to understand that the laws had not been created to resolve problems but in order to prolong quarrels indefinitely.

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around. No one sacrifices the most important thing she possesses: love. No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.

Train your eyes: they were made to see more than you think.

Our imagination is larger than the world around us; we go beyond our limits.

Show me where there is life in the desert. Only those who can see such signs of life are able to find treasure.

the world was in the hands of those who had courage to dream and to realize their dreams

He took blue and red and placed them next to each other, painting the eyes of an angel. And I saw the angel's eyes turn violet

Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation.

You are an artist," she said. "But then all scientists are artists, my father used to say. You think like an artist, at any rate, and I can see that you want what you create to be a work of art.

I think not everyone can see the whole picture. It has long been said we each see what we look for. You and I, we look at land and think of seed and harvests. A builder looks at the same land and thinks of houses, and a painter of its colors. The priest sees men only as those who need to be saved, and so naturally he sees most clearly those who need to be saved.

If you can live with the sadness of human life (what Rinpoche often called the tender heart or the genuine heart of sadness), if you can be willing to feel fully and acknowledge continually your own sadness and the sadness of life, but at the same time not be drowned in it, because you also remember the vision and power of the Great Eastern Sun, you experience balance and completeness, joining heaven and earth, joining vision and practicality.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

One eye sees, the other feels.

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.