“My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.”

— Arnold Schoenberg

As quoted in an interview with José Rodriguez (c. 1936) in Schoenberg‎ (1971) by Merle Armitage, p. 143
1930s

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Austrian-American composer 1874–1951

Basil Bunting (1900–1985) Poet

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I SUGGEST Advice to Young Poets

“We have, all of us, with a few unlucky exceptions, for which special schools are required, hands, eyes, and ears; and all these members should be trained and practiced in elementary education, as a means of improving the use of these organs, and so improving the great organ which directs and oversees the work of hands, eyes, and ears, and judges of its own work and its own acts.”

George Long (1800–1879) English classical scholar

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I

“When the love of God enters one's psyche, it is as if God becomes that persons ears to listen from, eyes to see with, hand to hold things with and feet to walk with, it is then that no remnant of wickedness is left in that person.”

Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928–2003) caliph of the Ahmadiyya

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“seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.”

Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Personality Theorist

“now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

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XAIPE (1950)

“Listen with ears of tolerance!
See through the eyes of compassion!
Speak with the language of love.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

https://twitter.com/wise_chimp/status/1488946174321205253?s=21

“With head upraised, and look intent,
And eye and ear attentive bent,
And locks flung back, and lips apart,
Like monument of Grecian art,
In listening mood, she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand.”

Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet

Canto I, stanza 17.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)

“The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.”

James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet

Interview with Max Eastman in Harper's Magazine, as quoted in James Joyce (1959) by Richard Ellmann. Eastman noted "He smiled as he said that — smiled, and then repeated it."

“That splendid, head, in which everything is said that can be said; color, line, tone, expression; the slightly advanced head, with the soft, almost human eyes, I never enter my studio in the morning without my eye falling upon this creature and wishing it 'Good Morning.'”

Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) painter from the Northern Netherlands

note of H.W. Mesdag, published in the exhibition catalogue of Corporation Gallery of London, the Guildhall, in 1903; as cited in the catalogue of The American Art Galleries Madison Square South, New York, 3 March 1920 https://ia601600.us.archive.org/29/items/b1470642/b1470642.pdf

remark about the painting 'Ramskop' of Matthijs Maris, painted c. 1860 https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/26605, which Mesdag bought and hanged in his house for many years
after 1880

“I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

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