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“That’s what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things not be paid attention to. It functions in that way to a certain extent in our civilization.”

Way Doe Certain Attention Vision Painting Civilization Function Paid Organize

Author:Jasper Johns

“The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation.”

Giving Real Artist Vision Generations Function

Author:Doris McCarthy

“When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for them, to guide their moral decisions, to give meaning and purpose to life, and all the other functions normally associated with a religion.”

People Giving Reality Purpose Certain Universe Decision Moral Vision Ultimate Function Guides Commit Moral Decisions

Book:Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

Source: Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

“Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art.”

“Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.”

Wells Action Realizing Vision Knowing Building Function Colleagues Know Yourself Building Trust Leadership Potential

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our spiritual heritage by a spiteful culture that gives us nothing but ashes- as the talismans of recognition that awaken our minds to reality.”

Source: Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

“The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.”

Men Art Spirit Vision Art Is Function

Book:Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 [presented to Yale University]

Source: Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 [presented to Yale University]

“I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.”

“My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.”

World America Order Nations United Vision Function New World United Nations New World Order World Order One World Government Peacekeeping

Author:George H. W. Bush

“Web services fits into the original vision of the ASP model in that there are these functions out on the Internet and you can just go out there and rent them.”

Vision Internet Fit Models Function Originals

Author:Eric A. Meyer