“Shut your eyes and see.”

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

Terry Pratchett book Wintersmith

“To shut your eyes is to travel.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“I shut my eyes in order to see.”

Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) French Post-Impressionist artist

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

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“Shut your eyes, there are bluer skies
For you're embraced in my heart”

Zooey Deschanel (1980) American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter

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

Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

“In your eyes,
The light, the heat.
In your eyes,
I am complete.
In your eyes,
I see the doorway to a thousand churches.
In your eyes,
The resolution of all the fruitless searches.In your eyes,
I see the light and the heat.
In your eyes,
Oh, I want to be that complete.
I want to touch the light, the heat I see in your eyes.”

Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian

“If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?”

Katherine Paterson book Jacob Have I Loved

“Your eyes see what your brain expects to see…”

Gianni Sarcone (1962) Italian author, artist, designer, and researcher in visual perception and cognitive psychology