Quotes About Sensory

When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

First and foremost, food needs to be delicious. It should pop and explode with flavor. Food should please all the senses.

I appreciate film and stuff that's visually pleasing.

When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.

Clothes make me dizzy.

I associate colors with music, or music with colors.

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

It's not like I see colours. It's just, for me, an incredibly strong association between music and colour.

People would always ask me how I came up with my music and what it felt like to make music, and I would always see colours, and then I found out that that was synaesthesia. It helps me understand songs and what I like.

I've always seen music as colours, with basses maybe translating to dark blues, and trebles as yellows and ochres and a general sense of lights coming through.

If you have caviar, the way to eat it is by the spoonful. Don't combine it with shrimp, pomegranate seeds and huitlacoche.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

I went to see Mogwai at the Fillmore, and that was both the loudest and quietest concert I've ever been to.

When you're listening to club music, there's no reward. The reward isn't, 'Oh, here's the chorus, here's the lyric that makes sense.' You have to enjoy what it is. You have to enjoy that there's no conclusion.

These days, you're always surrounded by music and sounds, whether you're in the mall or a subway car.

I have always loved beauty and fashion. Some of my earliest memories are of being surrounded by fragrances and lipstick samples.

I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.

The key concept is to open your ears. Music can be here and there, anywhere surrounding you.