Quotes About Perception

What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.

Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.

Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.

Open your mind to every form of beauty

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

We're constantly taking pictures of ourselves. It's a bit scary, because images are essentially dead, so we judge beauty on something that isn't alive.

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful.

Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.

The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It's what I am. And when I'm clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.

From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

He's wearing boots, a kilt, and a long-sleeve tee. No coat, even though it's December. Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm.

Beauty is very much in the mind of the beholder.