Vision quotes
2.6K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Browse quotes that often appear alongside vision — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"You go out into the world, you read everything you can read, you imitate the things you love, and you learn how hard it is to do. Eventually, you learn your own vision of the world, you learn your own voice and how to hear it, and you learn to write your own work. Writers today have as many opportunities as my generation did, but they don't see the examples as clearly as we did."
"Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!"
"I really love animation as a storytelling medium, whether it's traditional, cel animation, or CG, or stop motion, which is more our studio's area of focus. But I find that the creatives behind any kind of animation are typically very similar, and so regardless of what aesthetic they use to realize their vision, I'm usually pretty into it."
"Visionaries are limited by their visions."
"As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift."
"Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him."
"Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."
"He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing."
"Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length."
"The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world."
"Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read."
"I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it."
"For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man."
"I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together."
"Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp."
"Following your own vision is one of the only things that will sustain you."
"One looks, looks long, and the world comes in."
"It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic."
"Everyone in this world who has ever dreamed about better things has been laughed at."
"At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are."
