Vision Quotes - Page 23

• Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Wisdom, Learning, Creativity

  Attributed to Szent-Györgyi in "Bridging the Present and the Future: IEEE Professional Communication Society Conference Record, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 16-18, 1985", p. 14, 1985.

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• The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Lying, Quality

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tools, Looks, Microscopes

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

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

  Tom Stoppard

  Light, Information, Awe

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”

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• 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 time things invisible before become suddenly visible.

  Louis L'Amour

  Eye, May, Firsts

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Bendigo Shafter”, p.281, Bantam

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• It's better not to see than to see wrongly.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Awe, Seeing

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• Paint what you see, not what you know.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Paint, Awe, Knows

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• 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 water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see

  Octavio Paz

  Eye, Water, Perception

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• 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, you will find something - a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something - something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don't we go sightseeing in cars, thinking we can experience a landscape by looking at it through glass?

  Galway Kinnell

  Flower, Thinking, Glasses

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• 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 reality of that thing.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Reality, Fundamentals, Piercings

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, World, Landscape

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• It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Way, Impossible, Awe

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• 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 thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.

  Arthur Symons

  Veils, Able, Chance

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

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• 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 other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded ... unconscious, automatic.

  Oliver Sacks

  Hands, Touching, Feelings

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• Others can measure their visions by what we see.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Awe, Seeing

  Falco, Nick Cave, Allen Ginsberg (2002). “Viva la poesia”

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• 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 space opens up in silence and an endlessly fecund sub-universe the writer descends, and asks the reader to descend after him, not merely to gain instructions but also to experience delight, the delight of mind freed from matter and exultant in the strength it has stolen from matter.

  John Updike

  Mean, Eye, Space

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• You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows...and has always known...that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Dream, War

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• I could paint these mountains the way they look, but it isn't how I see them.

  Justin Beckett

  Mountain, Looks, Way

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

  Edvard Munch

  Saws, Paint, Awe

  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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• 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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• Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Success, Stress

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