James Hillman Quotes

On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.

The power of the visible is the invisible.

God is behind everything, but everything hides God.