Quotes About Perception

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.

As we meditate regularly, we let go of the conditioned beliefs and accumulated physical and mental toxicity that cloud our perception of our essential, unbounded nature.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about.

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

The more you look, the more you will see.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.

As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

People who contend with stressful situations regularly detect more opportunities of this nature than people who are living in pampered circumstances.