Quotes About Vision

I'd rather see the world from a different angle.

Amid the gray, an incongruous band of daytime blue asserts itself. To the west, a pink sun already begins its descent. The effect is of three isolated aspects, distinct phases of the day. All of it, strewn across the horizon, is contained in his vision.

It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men.

I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.

If you want to direct, you've got to work.

I think we're in a time and place, the last 20 plus years, and certainly now, it's only more so, where it's just about us creating a body of work. Creating hopefully our own scene.

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May.

When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well.

It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.

Every director works differently but one thing's important: they must have a vision. If they don't have a vision I don't care how they work.

I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work.

I hope to work through disappointment and frustration with as much grace as [Georgia] O'Keeffe did, and I hope to have the same confidence in my own vision.

I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

The goal of all your hard work should be to make your reality everyone else's fantasy land.

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.

Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.

That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.

I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic.

I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.

Your hopes and dreams, as well as your perception of the world around you, come through in your work and make it unique.

The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.

Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.

If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.

The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.