Awe Quotes - Page 12

• But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.

  Arthur Symons

  Eye, Vision, Way

  Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

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• I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

  Edvard Munch

  Vision, Saws, Paint

  Elizabeth Prelinger, Edvard Munch, High Museum of Art (2001). “After The Scream: The Late Paintings of Edvard Munch”, p.38, Yale University Press

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• Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Vision, Different

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• Seeing within changes one's outer vision.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Reflection, Vision, Self Awareness

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• Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that I - or rather the blessed Not-I - cared to look at.

  Aldous Huxley

  Flower, Blessed, Garden

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means there are some lesions in the retina or wherever, and because your eyes aren't working properly, you feel them. In the same way, you don't hear your ears. If you have a ringing in your ears it means there's something wrong with your ears. Therefore, if you do feel yourself, there must be something wrong with you. Whatever you have, the sensation of I is like spots in front of your eyes - it means something's wrong with your functioning.

  Alan Watts

  Mean, Eye, Imperfection

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.

  John Burroughs

  Spring, Vision, Lamps

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• We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. God manifests Himself everywhere, in everything - in people and in things and in nature and in events ... The only thing is we don't see it ... I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere.

  Thomas Merton

  People, Shining, Heaven

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• The longer you garden the better the eye gets, the more tuned to how colors vibrate in different ways and what they can do to each other. You become a scientist as well as an artist, with the lines between increasingly blurred.

  Marjorie Harris

  Eye, Artist, Garden

  Marjorie Harris (1995). “In the Garden: Thoughts on Changing Seasons”, HarperCollins

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• If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.

  Andrew van der Bijl

  Vision, Scare, Seeing

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• Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Eye, Greatness, Color

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.39, Shambhala Publications

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• Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Eye, Light, Darkness Within

  "The Romantic Imagination: Literature and Art in England and Germany". Book by Fredrick Berwick, 1996.

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• Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Thinking, Vision

  "Selected letters, 1940-1956".

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• Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Eye, Thinking

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• Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.

  Tom Stoppard

  Light, Vision, Information

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”

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• 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 single blade of grass.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wise, Art, Intelligent

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Sight, Vision, Looks

  Keith Crown (1967). “Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967”

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• ... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.

  Susan Griffin

  Perception, Vision, World

  Susan Griffin (1998). “Bending Home: Selected & New Poems, 1967-1998”

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• It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Spiritual, Mistake, Perception

  "Man Visible and Invisible: Examples of Different Types of Men as Seen by Means of Trained Clairvoyance".

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• It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Vision, Tools, Looks

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.22, Full Moon Publications

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• 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 of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Eye, Heart

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• 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 far horizon, fading away.

  Walt Whitman

  Country, Horse, Doors

  Walt Whitman, Howard Nelson (2010). “Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman”, p.142, North Atlantic Books

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• Paint what you see, not what you know.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Vision, Paint, Knows

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• Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

  Robert Collier

  Life, Giving, Vision

  Robert Collier (2009). “Riches Within Your Reach!”, p.234, Penguin

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• As you kind of get over the anxiety about [science and evolution], it actually adds to your sense of awe about this amazing universe that we live in, it doesn't subtract from it at all.

  Francis Collins

  Science, Anxiety, Add

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