Quotes About Vision

I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Our art is an adventure. It is a dream come true.

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

An artist should have more than two eyes.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

There is no art without a poetic aim.

Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

Cinema is an art form.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!

First I have a think, and then I put a line around it.

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.