#sight

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#beauty #eyes #hope #perspective #poetry

...when I met you, you were so beautiful, the air around you vibrated with color ... ↗

— John Geddes

#beauty #love-at-first-sight #poetry-quotes-love #beauty

You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do. ↗

— Ian McDonald

#beauty #blindness #seeing #sight #art

The most beautiful we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. ↗

— Einstein Albert

#art

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#sigrun-gard #change

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she'd tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as you're ever going to. Look around. It's all downhill from here. The rest of us will go a bit further, a steady job, a trip to Hawaii, or a move to Phoenix, Arizona, but out of fifteen hundred how many will do anything truly worthwhile, write a play, paint a painting that will hang in a gallery, find a cure for herpes? Two of us, maybe three? And how many will find true love? About the same. And enlightenment? Maybe one. The rest of us will make compromises, find excuses, someone or something to blame, and hold that over our hearts like a pendant on a chain. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#graduation #growth #insight #maturity #teenager

I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#head #him #hindsight #i #incompetent

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#defined #imitation #imperfect #insight #literature

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election. ↗

— John Major

#allegedly #come #complete #dancing #disillusionment

Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings. ↗

— Henry Martyn

#any #dearest #destroy #did #english