“They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.”
Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Zelensky’s speech at the UN General Assembly https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/vistup-prezidenta-ukrayini-volodimira-zelenskogo-na-zagalnih-57477 (25 September 2019)
“They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.”
Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
Also attributed to Chester Bennington (singer of Linkin Park)
Chester Bennington (1976–2017) American singer-songwriter
Also attributed to Johnny Depp.
“It is sure to be dark if you close your eyes.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“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.<br>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/ <br class="br">undated <br class="br">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.
“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
“Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.”
Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer