Quotes About Perception

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.

Nature is not anthropomorphic.

Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?

When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.

My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it.

Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn't last long in nature. They're too conspicuous.

Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.

Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

Nature sometimes contrives to disconcert by reflecting the image of our creation.

I can't think of one person who is on TV who isn't vain. It's the nature of the beast. If you are on TV then you have a vanity, for sure. Just admit it! Why not?

Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.

Nature is an unpleasing, stupid, lumpy, blowsy wench.

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others again are plain honest and upright.

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