Vision Quotes
4020 Vision quotes by 2453 unique authors
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Take the whole universe all at once and put it on your eyelashes...
— Yunmen Wenyan
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Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey -…
— Eleanor Perenyi
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I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the…
— Aldous Huxley
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The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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We never see anything completely. We never see a tree, we see the tree through the image that we have of it, the concept of…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.
— James Joyce
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One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.
— Joseph Campbell
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.
— Robert Creeley
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Sight is where the eye hits.
— Louis Zukofsky
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to…
— Claude Monet
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Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry is the something…
— Reginald Horace Blyth
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Same old eyes, same old world but the difference is how you look at what is in front of you, not what it is.
— Lister Sinclair
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Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize…
— Philip Guston
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My work isn't about form. It's about seeing. I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people see things.
— Roy Lichtenstein
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The principal person in a picture is light.
— Edouard Manet
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At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years.…
— Timothy Leary
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Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give it…
— Robin Lane Fox
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Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
— George Carlin
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Each band or level, being a particular manifestation of the electromagnetic spectrum, is what it is only by virtue of the other bands. The color…
— Ken Wilber
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Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative…
— Murray Bookchin
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The gifts of microscopes to our understanding of cells and organisms is so profound that one has to ask: What are the gifts of the…
— Unknown Author
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There will always be those who must look into the dark in order to see.
— Alan McGlashan
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I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.
— Henry David Thoreau
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