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"That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance."
"What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision."
"I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden."
"You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception."
"Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun."
"The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision."
"In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims."
"Success Recipe: 2 cups faith, 2 cups love, 1 cup hard work, 1 cup persistence, 1 tbsp vision and a dash of swagger."
"In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation."
"Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was."
"Chiropractic works in harmony with the basic healing forces of the body, whereas the allopathic, western medical establishment doesn't have nearly as holistic a vision."
"You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieveing it you become someone worth becoming."
"Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk."
"We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live."
"The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown."
"Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling."
"ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way."
"It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient"
"I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision."
"A writer is basically someone who shares his or her value or vision of the world."
