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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. (Alan Alda)
All I can do now is cover the mirrors... (Helene Aylon)
For me a square is not really an abstract shape. It's more like a window. And a rectangle for me, really is a door, something we could pass through. (Pat Martin Bates)
And you will have a window in your head. / Not even your future will be a mystery / any more. / Your mind will be punched in a card / and shut away in a little drawer. (Wendell Berry)
-listening to John Lennon...
I'm not exaggerating to say that. This music changed the shape of the room. It changed the shape of the world outside the room; the way you looked out the window and what you were looking at. (Bono)
Bill, I don't do Windows. (Ray Bradbury)
A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window. (Stewart Brand)
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors. (Bertolt Brecht)
I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what it looks out on... and there is nothing I love so much as something which stretches away from me out of sight. (Andre Breton)
Throw open your window and let the scenery of clouds and sky enter your room! (Yosa Buson)
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. (Samuel Butler, novelist)
We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today. (Dale Carnegie)
-to Robert Genn...
Thanks for being a pane in my window on the world! (Lyn Cherry)
Lenses or 'windows' are placed between the subject and the camera, between the object and the viewer, and between the viewer and the artist. How do these filter and distort the image? What effects occur when there are multiple 'windows'? What happens when there are none? (Peter Ciccariello)
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images. (Jean Cocteau)
The window of opportunity opens and closes as fast as a camera's shutter. (Warren Criswell)
Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different. (Guy Davenport)
That meek darkness be thy mirror, and thy whole remembrance. (Dionysius)
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, / Why dost thou thus, / Through windows and through curtains call on us? (John Donne)
When I look out my window, / Many sights to see. / And when I look in my window, / So many different people to be / That it's strange, so strange. (Donovan)
The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. (Thomas Dreier)
-on the paintings of Christopher Pearse Cranch...
Were there not these still mirrors to reflect the beauty of the heavens to us, it might be lost to eyes so seldom lifted upwards. (John Sullivan Dwight)
I have no desire to make windows into men's souls. (Queen Elizabeth I)
Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand. (James Elkins)
-The Virgin Suicides...
'The window was still open,' Mr Lisbon said. 'I don't think we'd ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close it or else she'd go on jumping out of it forever.' (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Calmly in the precious present, be a light for love and wisdom in the window on your world. (Kevin Flynn)
-WWD, Bridget Foley's Diary...
Retail windows are entertainment... More often than not, entertainment depends upon exaggeration. (Bridget Foley)
Thank goodness for those professionals who take their time to show how they do their work. It is a window into the soul of an artist in which we learn not only the techniques but the spirit and concerns. (Christy Fulton)
Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy. (Robert Genn)
Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill. (Sara Genn)
-Eat, Pray, Love...
A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Mirrors should reflect before sending an image. (Jean-Luc Godard)
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. (Nikolai Gogol)
The window offered an antidote: the comforting view of a quiet street. I reached out to hold this sight but instead touched glass, felt its faint chill. I pressed harder at the window. If something so solid could be so easy to see through, I thought, then why weren't people the same way, open to any search, available to anyone's curiosity? (Philip Graham)
Most of the low latticed windows were innocent of blinds, and to the lookers-in from outside, the inmates, gathered 'round the tea-table, absorbed in handiwork, or talking with laughter or gesture, had each that happy grace which is the last thing the skilled actor shall capture - the natural grace which goes with perfect unconsciousness of observation. (Kenneth Grahame)
They say that the eye is the window to the soul. But it is the soul that is the window. (Andrew Hamilton)
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. (Sydney J. Harris)
I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you? (David Hockney)
I remember, I remember, / The house where I was born, / The little window where the sun / Came peeping in at morn. (Thomas Hood)
-when asked, "What is the most difficult aspect of being married to a great artist?"...
It took me a long time to realize that when he is looking out the window, he is working. (wife of Edward Hopper)
Left behind / by the thief / the moon in the window. (Kobayashi Issa)
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. (Lady Bird Johnson)
I removed the window [tattoo] because, while I used to spend all my time looking out through windows wishing to be outside, I now live there all the time. (Angelina Jolie)
I just don't like to lose what's in the window. (Bill Joy)
I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life - closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. (C. Joybell C.)
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. (James Joyce)
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. (Franz Kafka)
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror. (Byron Katie)
A loving person lives in a loving world, a hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. (Ken Kesey)
Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that I am not here to reflect the surface... but must penetrate inside. My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones. (Paul Klee)
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)
The light upon her face / Shines from the windows of another world. / Saints only have such faces. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
It's like I'm not in my place... Watching behind my glass window... they say I see nothing. (Ashgan Makarem)
Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. (Yann Martel)
The wall around the window does not create two worlds. (Henri Matisse)
Upon inspection, three old, wood-framed windows were there, hidden by debris. The windows were closed, even though you could see through the glass. The understanding came swiftly - to really feel the light, the windows must also be open, hanging freely. (Laurel McCallum)
This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul. (Felix Mendelssohn)
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend. (Agnes de Mille)
The Song Not the Singer, poem
Forget all the promises / Fold away the dreams / Close all the windows / Nothing is what it seems. (Stephen Morris)
Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows. (Jim Morrison)
-The House at Riverton...
The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly... It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose. An unguarded moment, stripped of artifice, when one forgets to fool even oneself. (Kate Morton)
I have never seen white so absolute / And alone, glistening in awkward form / Dreaming across the water a bright path. / As it stirs and changes I see what it is: / Two swans have found the mirror in the lake / Where a V of horizon lets light through / To make them light-source and light-shape in one. / Now they swim and fade through windows of reed
/ And disrobe the lake of apparition. (John O'Donohue)
My windows look out over a tiny town... I have a bouquet on the windowsill and a counter covered with tangerines, plums, tomatoes and every kind of apple... a young woman may be sitting for a small portrait. (David Oleski)
One can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. (George Orwell)
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. (John James Osborne)
If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction. (Osho)
The eyes are the window of the soul. (proverb)
In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight... (David Rakoff)
The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too. (Herbert Samuel)
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny. (Carl Sandburg)
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. (Martin Scorsese)
You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. / Some windows are lighted, but mostly they're darked. / A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! / Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? / How much can you lose? How much can you win? (Dr. Seuss)
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. (George Bernard Shaw)
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. (George Bernard Shaw)
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world. (Burton Silverman)
Unless, governor, teacher inspector, visitor, /
This map becomes their window and these windows / That open on their lives like crouching tombs / Break, O break open...' (Stephen Spender)
-East is West...
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road. (Freya Stark)
-from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895...
In his soul, as in a mirror, were concentrated all the lights radiating from every point of observation - whether human or Divine - and from his soul as from a mirror, these lights were reflected back in every possible combination of beauty and sublimity. (Sir James Francis Stephens)
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one. (Saint Teresa of Avila)
Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I'm caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the world feels just out of reach for me. (David Toop)
When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of the house, and the brightness of its light inspires you to open all the curtains. In the vision of the Great Eastern Sun, no human being is a lost cause. (Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche)
A room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. Forgiveness is like this. (Desmond Tutu)
This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography. (Mark Twain)
On the highway of life, we most often recognize happiness out of the rearview mirror. (Frank Tyger)
One may know the world without going out of doors. One may see the Way of Heaven without looking through the windows. (Lao Tzu)
Keep yourself clean and bright. You are the windows through which you must view the world. (Author unknown)
The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him. (Leonardo da Vinci)
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. (Denis Waitley)
-Love after Love...
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other's welcome. (Derek Walcott)
Paintings are windows to the imprisoned thoughts. (Van Waldron)
Sitting looking out of the window thinking I want to be an artist just doesn't work! (Sally Webster)
Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open? (Wei Wu Wei)
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. (Walt Whitman)
All the windows of my heart I open to the day. (John Greenleaf Whittier)
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation. (Billy Wilder)
There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors. (Tennessee Williams)
If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window. (Andrew Wyeth)
Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window. (Mu Xin)
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