Quotes About Vision

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

Organized perception is what art is all about.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Great artists need great clients.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

To see far is one thing, going there is another.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

I believe that every innovative thought comes from a creative mindset....A creative mindset is what drives our world, and art is the base of that.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.