Vision Quotes - Page 17

• My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Eye, Seeing, Eyes Looking

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.134

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• Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Eye, Adrift, Blind

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• What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

  Robert Creeley

  Inspirational, World, Awe

  Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.364, Univ of California Press

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• Sight is where the eye hits.

  Louis Zukofsky

  Eye, Sight, Seeing

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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 life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

  Claude Monet

  Life, Change, Stars

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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 that we see, but the seeing and the something are one; without the seeing there is no something, no something, no seeing. There is neither discovery nor creation: only the perfect, indivisible experience.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Nature, Discovery, Perfect

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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

  Eye, Differences, Looks

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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 it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.

  Philip Guston

  Thinking, Mind, Desire

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.281, Univ of California Press

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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

  Thinking, People, Way

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• The principal person in a picture is light.

  Edouard Manet

  Light, Awe, Persons

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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. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.

  Timothy Leary

  Years, Peers, Telescopes

  Timothy Leary (1994). “Das GeneRationen-Spiel & wie die HeimMedien die kulturelle Evolution designen”

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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 a better neighbor. To other's eyes, all may look as well as could be expected, but a good gardener's eye sees more to be improved.

  Robin Lane Fox

  Work, Eye, Giving

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• Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

  George Carlin

  Mean, Opposites, Awe

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• Each band or level, being a particular manifestation of the spectrum, is what it is only by virtue of the other bands. The color blue is no less beautiful because it exists along side the other colors of a rainbow, and "blueness" itself depends upon the existence of the other colors, for if there were no color but blue, we would never be able to see it.

  Ken Wilber

  Beautiful, Blue, Color

  "The Spectrum of Consciousness". Book by Ken Wilber, 1993.

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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 achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.

  Murray Bookchin

  Eye, Technology, Long

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• Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Men, Use

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.363

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• One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Eye, Looks, Awe

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• Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put into water and something I thought wasn't worth more than a casual, respectful glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning.

  Wendy Beckett

  Art, Flower, Taken

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• Close your eyes and you will see.

  Joseph Joubert

  Eye, Awe, Seeing

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

  Edward Steichen

  Awe, Feels, Seeing

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• Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Falling In Love, Artistic, Clarity

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• Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fun, Dull, Quiet

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• But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Beauty, Eye, Virginia

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1541, Library of America

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• We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.

  Frederick Franck

  Lenses, Looks, Telescopes

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• Thus we cannot escape the fact that the world we know is constructed in order to see itself. This is indeed amazing. Not so much in view of what it sees, although this may appear fantastic enough, but in respect of the fact that it can see at all. But in order to do so, evidently it must first cut itself up into a least one state which sees, and at least one other state which is seen.

  George Spencer-Brown

  Cutting, Views, Order

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