“Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.”

“Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes. But I’m afraid if you look at a thing long enough; it loses all of its meaning”

“To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.”

“you'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut”

“To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind’s eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.”

“Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.”

“Coffee, which makes the politician wise,
And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.”

“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”

“To shut your eyes is to travel.”

“I shut my eyes in order to see.”