Quotes About Perception

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such and such a way, you will never learn what your nature wants.

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way." - Becks

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.