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Bert | 22:39 Tue 27th Jan 2004 | Phrases & Sayings
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I heard this sentence on a TV programme within the past two weeks - it might have been the on about Rodin's 'The Kiss' - it was said as though it was a quotation. When I put it on Google I found lots of hits, but I did not find an answer to my question, Is it a quotation and, if so, by whom, when and where from?
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I'm sure this was a poem used on an advert ages ago. I'm probably wrong but could it be John Betjamin or Rudyard Kipling?
"I shut my eyes in order to see" is a quote from the artist, Paul Gauguin. He is obviously referring to the idea that 'mental visualisation' is as important as actually 'seeing' a picture.

I suspect the version you offer - as your Google search seems to confirm - is just a variation/extension of that idea and one that has been used in one form or another by many other people.

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