It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.

Art is a sense of magic.

Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green?’ How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.