"Vision is the Art of seeing Things..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift

“Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.”

“The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.”

“Surely mortal man is a broomstick!”

“Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.”

“All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it”

“You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have”

“I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.”

“I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is not naturally possessed of this grace may acquire it by study, as opportunity offers in the following manner: be on the watch to take good parts of many beautiful faces of which the beautiful parts are established by general repute rather than by your own judgement, for you may deceive yourself by selecting faces that resemble your own, since it often seems that such similarities please us; ... so therefore choose the beautiful ones as I tell you and fix them in your mind.”

“To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.”