William Eggleston Quotes

Color is everywhere, so everything has changed. I still can't see color, but I can perceive it. I can experience it in a way that allows me to be a part of this reality, which I was excluded from before. Thanks to the eyeborg, I've made a career by combining music and art.

We take so much for granted; we can't imagine life without our five senses. I sometimes would wonder what it would be like if I suddenly couldn't see one day.

I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

You must adapt to the situation. This is where the pictures come from.

Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would be a mistake to give too much significance to my blindness.

It's not really a curse or anything that you're blind; it's really a blessing.

I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.

When my father realized he was going blind, he took up golf.

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.

Actually, being blind is not so bad. If you're born this way, you never know anything else and you don't wonder about it. Though I'd hate to have lost my sight after being able to see.

I visited an asylum to observe expressions of the mentally disturbed and to get my body language right for the blind girl's role. I visited the blind school, read the autobiography of Helen Keller, and watched a number of films from 'Scent of a Woman' to 'Anurag,' 'Fanaa' and 'Black.'

I'm comfortable not using my vision.

I was born blind in Sapangbato in Angeles City.

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.

I think creating the clothes is about creating historical images - and that's about more than fashion. It is about the fashion, the photography, what you are doing in the moment. It's what we call in French rechercher, or the search for that thing. So even though fashion is not scientific, I think being a designer is somewhat like being a scientist.

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy!

When I'm not creating or focusing on something I can imagine or invent, I think I go back over my life - I don't recommend this by the way - and you pick up, oh, what'd you do that for? Why didn't you understand this?

Want me to Stevie Wonder my way to the bathroom?

To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.