Vision Quotes

4020 Vision quotes by 2453 unique authors

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think. — Paul Cezanne
Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light. — Tom Stoppard
If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a… — Vincent Van Gogh
Seeing is such a privilege. Who notices the way the screech of a gull looks, the look of a gale, the sight of some fragrance? — Keith Crown
... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world. — Susan Griffin
It is the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to… — Charles Webster Leadbeater
It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. — Arthur Schopenhauer
An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the… — Walt Whitman
Paint what you see, not what you know. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it… — Walter Darby Bannard
One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first… — Louis L'Amour
Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear… — Octavio Paz
Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental… — Henepola Gunaratana
The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random,… — Galway Kinnell
It's better not to see than to see wrongly. — Robert M. Pirsig
Content is a glimpse. — Willem de Kooning
I could paint these mountains the way they look, but it isn't how I see them. — Justin Beckett
Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see. — Alberto Giacometti
Others can measure their visions by what we see. — Allen Ginsberg
Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another… — Arthur Symons
We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are… — Oliver Sacks
He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing. — George Santayana
It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense… — John Updike

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