Quotes About Perception

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

The sound of water says what I think.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of the world.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!

In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.