Quotes About Perception

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.

It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!

I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager).

Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.

One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.

Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.