Quotes About Perception

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

We are what we seem to be.

People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

Employers know the nature of people best.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.

Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.

Some movies - even movies you've done way before - they're just clearer in nature.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.