Quotes About Perception

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one's wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.

Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know.

The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

To be awake is to be alive.

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt.

The source of all light is in the eye.

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.