Quotes About Sensory

Bunt was disgustedly drinking a pint of beer, eyeing the table with resentment, the dishes of sticky pork and soggy and wilted lettuce, the black vegetables, the gray broth, the purple meat. On one dish of yellow meat was a severed chicken's head, its eyes blinded, its scalloped comb torn like a red rag.

I argued myself into thinking that physical experience is the only reality. I didn't want to be told about this at second hand. I didn't want to look at picture or study it on a small computer screen. I didn't want to be lectured about it. I wanted to be traveling in the middle of it, and for it to be washing over me, as it was today.

The mustard lined his lips. At one point a strand of sauerkraut was smeared against his chin.

Once inside, Dennis almost keeled over from the smell of cooked cabbage. Why was it that any girl he took out had a house with an incredible smell?

Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.

The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can't move.

Lie down on the ground and feel the planet's heart beating.

Death was sweet; it smelled of wine and stroked her hair.

The boy listened to the sound of her voice and thought it to be more beautiful than the sound of the wind in the date palms.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

Perfume is the art that makes memory speak

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

The purpose of art is delectation.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.