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French Post-Impressionist artist 1848–1903Related quotes
“I was still using my eyes even though I had them shut”
The Podfather Trilogy, Episode 2 Thanksgiving
On Nature
“My eyes make pictures when they are shut.”
A Day-Dream
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Tremendous Trifles (1909)
Context: For my friend said that he opened his intellect as the sun opens the fans of a palm tree, opening for opening's sake, opening infinitely for ever. But I said that I opened my intellect as I opened my mouth, in order to shut it again on something solid. I was doing it at the moment. And as I truly pointed out, it would look uncommonly silly if I went on opening my mouth infinitely, for ever and ever.
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.”
"Mad Girl's Love Song" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/madgirl.html (1953) from Collected Poems (1981)
Variant: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Source: The Bell Jar
“Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.”
Associated Press (2008); from an interview conducted by John Rogers.
“Shut your eyes, there are bluer skies
For you're embraced in my heart”
"If You Can't Sleep".
Volume Two (2010)
“Coffee, which makes the politician wise,
And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.”
Canto III, line 117.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)