Quotes About Perception

Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.

There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

It's ridiculous that people would judge my songs based on what I wore, but that's how it is... superficial. I don't really care, though - I am confident in the quality of my own work.

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?

Beauty shouldn't be superficial and should come from within, and your eyes will tell the story.

To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.

Modeling is so... not superficial. Well, I guess it is. But it's boring.

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

I used to look at fashion from a superficial standpoint, and I can admit now that I wasn't so nice of a person.

If looks help, that's great, but we don't want it to be the featured thing. It's totally superficial.

If you get too caught up with the superficial part of beauty, you get too self-conscious.

I'm sure critics feel that there's more to me than superficial glamor.

Most of Hollywood is informed in a very superficial way, only based on what they see on this television channel or the other, or in this newspaper or the other.

Generally speaking, the term, 'vanity,' itself can be perceived as negative, superficial and egotistical, but I see it as being unapologetic for celebrating other sides of my artistry.

I have this thing in my brain that I just wish I lived in a different time era. And I think that's honestly just because of social media and everything, like phones and the whole shebang. I feel like relationships are more superficial.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.