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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.