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“But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything”
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Lewis Carroll 241
English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898Related quotes
“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing”
Pablo Picasso
(1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
“Close your bodily eye, so that you may see your picture first with the spiritual eye.”
Caspar David Friedrich
(1774–1840) Swedish painter
Variant translation: Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
Quoted in The Romantic Imagination: Literature and Art in England and Germany (1996) by Fredrick Berwick and Jürgn Klein, and in "Culture: Caspar D. Friedrich and the Wasteland" by Gjermund E. Jansen in Bits of News (3 March 2005) http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/154/42/
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Context: Close your bodily eye, so that you may see your picture first with the spiritual eye. Then bring to the light of day that which you have seen in the darkness so that it may react upon others from the outside inwards. A picture must not be invented but felt. Observe the form exactly, both the smallest and the large and do not separate the small from the large, but rather the trivial from the important.
Johnny Depp
(1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
Also attributed to Chester Bennington (singer of Linkin Park)
“With open eyes, you watch; with closed eyes, you see.”
“A Book,” p. p. 92
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “Nostalgic Elements”
“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
Variant: Open your eyes, the Frenchman on the radio used to say, and see what you can with them before they close forever.
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
“You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.”
The Mask of Apollo (1966)