“Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.”

— Jonathan Swift

Thoughts on various subjects (Further thoughts on various subjects) (1745)

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Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667–1745

Donald Judd (1928–1994) artist

1990s
Source: Artforum International. Vol. 32 (1994), p. 38

“The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.”

Luis Barragán (1902–1988) Mexican architect

In his acceptance of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1980

“Genius is the aptitude for seeing invisible things, for stirring intangible things, for painting things that have no features.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.”

George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah

The She-Ancient, in Pt. V
Source: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Context: Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul. But we who are older use neither glass mirrors nor works of art. We have a direct sense of life. When you gain that you will put aside your mirrors and statues, your toys and your dolls.