Quotes About Perception

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...

Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the sound; you are the sound.

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long.

When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.