Quotes About Senses

Art is not in the mind. Art is in the eye, in the ear, in the memory of our senses. Images, dreams.

The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way. Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

synesthesia—moments in which the stimulation of one sense provokes another.

Writing now makes me feel as if I had lost at least one of my senses. I can't hear you or see you and I wonder if you hear me. One thing is quite sure. I love you. Yours, George.

What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.

If one accepts the premise that all knowledge comes to us through our senses, Hume says, then one must logically conclude that both 'Nature' and 'Nature's laws' are creations of our own imagination.

I love to smell flowers in the dark, she said. You get hold of their soul then.

EL AMOR NO SE PIENSA: SE SIENTE O NO SE SIENTE

My Spidey-sense had been tingling since I found the empty car. Sometimes it's not paranoia; it's just the truth.

how when you love someone, you take that person into your body, your fingertips predicting their angles and curves; how you smell like them in the morning.

The room does not smell like apple. It smells like frog juice, a cross between a nursing home and potato salad. The Back Row pays attention. Cutting dead frogs is cool.

Why was the mind said to have an eye and not a hand, or a tongue? Perhaps touch, taste, odour, sound were linked to the heart rather than the intellect.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Life (ayu) is the combination (samyoga) of body, senses, mind and reincarnating soul. Ayurveda is the most sacred science of life, beneficial to humans both in this world and the world beyond.

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.

Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

One of my theories is that men love with their eyes women love with their ears.

Now, by the altar, Over the victim Ripe for our ritual, Sing this enchantment: A song without music, A sword in the senses, A storm in the heart And a fire in the brain; A clamour of Furies To paralyse reason, A tune full of terror, A drought in the soul!