Quotes About Sensory

I want my daughter to grow up with memories of home-cooked meals, just as I did as one of seven children by Moroccan parents.

For me, it's a feel thing; it's a mechanical thing.

Our favourite restaurants, cafes and eateries put a lot of thought into what they do, mostly for our pleasure. Perhaps we should consider a little more often, what we bring to this edible equation.

Just the sound of the paper ripping relaxes me.

I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.

I like it when you walk in a restaurant and all the walk-ins are down and everything is rotten. That gives me jolts of excitement.

I consider the sound of the sea to be part of my body.

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.

I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.

I'm a painter in sound.

Painters 'see' the world; musicians 'hear' it.

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

One of the things I say is, 'You want to know what it's like to be a baby? It's like being in love for the first time in Paris after four double espressos.' And boy, you are alive and conscious.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

Reality went out the window the moment we started mediating sensory input through a nervous system. You want to actually perceive the universe directly, without any stupid scribbles or model-building? Become a protozoan.

proprioceptive polyneuropathy.

Floaters swarmed through his eyeballs like schools of panicked fish.

synesthete.

My philosophy, if I had one, would be pretty simple. The taste of a pizza with a Coke, the sight of a well-made body, the feel of a mouth where it does the most good, the hearing of a piece of music I like, the smell of oil and leather and armpits.

Killing with a knife is very personal; you actually are holding it as it goes in, and when death comes, you can feel your victim dying through the knife. It's like sex.

Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.

Her perfume already had me by the knot in my tie and was gently kicking my brain around inside my skull.