Quotes About Vision

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

All creation is in the art of seeing.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

Light is impressionism.

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.