George Henry Lewes Quotes About Vision

• The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.

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  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

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  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

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  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

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  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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