Quotes About Perception

Reading surrounds us, labels us, defines us.

Art is seeing the truth and revealing it, as beautifully and forcefully and honestly as you are able.

He didn't sit. He rarely sat. Big hands massaging the back of his chair, he looked as if he was keeping the furniture from jumping off the floor. The smile enjoyed itself for another moment while smart eyes read every face. Then he decided that things weren't stirred up enough, so with a big voice accustomed to commanding billions of dollars, he told all of us, "I'll be dead before New Year's.

That seemed dangerous. If your internal map of reality doesn't match external conditions, bad things happen.

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

Would I be any less real if I lived only in your mind?

Your brain is a forest, And the nerves are trees. When the branches touch, Snaps jumps between the leaves.

Perhaps you should have been a dragon yourself!" she shouted back. "If you could see the world as I see it!

Quid est enim fids nisi crdere quod nn vids? (Augustine Evang. Iohan.

She pulled him through the door. As he passed the jamb from the dingy hallway it was like stepping into a Gilbert Morosco party. Lines wavered, planes warped, colors blended and changed and formed unfathomable patterns; odors penetrated his head, drove openings through passages

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.

Human beings say, "It never rains but it pours." This is not very apt, for it frequently does rain without pouring. The rabbits' proverb is better expressed. They say, "One cloud feels lonely": and indeed it is true that the sky will soon be overcast.

I looked at the world as God did when first He made it. I saw that it was good.

You find what you look for, my boy." "What is that supposed to mean?" "Exactly what it sounds like.

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Reality is divinely indifferent.

Your friends will know you better in the first moment you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a lifetime.

Sometimes when learning comes before experience it doesn't make sense right away.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.