William S. Burroughs Quotes About Vision

Quotes about: Vision

• Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Creativity, Artist, People

  "New York library buys personal archives of Naked Lunch author" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2006.

• I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I never quite saw it.

  William S. Burroughs

  Moving, Feelings, Vision

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials.

  William S. Burroughs

  Art, Growing Up, Children

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

• Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.

  William S. Burroughs

  Confusion, Confusing, Vision

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