Quotes About Perception

Once I make a picture, I never look at it again.

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

Ain't nobody ever seen a picture of me with no gun. I have my guns for safety.

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

Sometimes you need to be aware of the bigger picture you are missing.

In the person with autism, the brain may already be seeing the part and be less distracted by the whole, and in the person without autism the brain may have to set aside its picture of the whole to analyze the detail.

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

People just expect you to show up, be a cartoon character of yourself, take your money and go home. But don't screw up to the point where you're gonna be out of the picture.

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have to read it with them. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do.

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.

You can't get any pictures from way back there.

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

Believe me, I don't like being photographed. I don't like myself in pictures. Actually, I do sometimes.