Quotes About Perception

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one's soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

To understand blue you must first understand yellow and orange

I thought I would be understood without words

My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.

it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting.

I would sooner paint people's eyes than cathedrals, for there is something in the eyes that is lacking in a cathedral - however solemn and impressive it may be. To my mind a man's soul, be it that of a poor beggar or of a streetwalker, is more interesting.

For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly.

I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

It's not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

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AÈ™a stau lucrurile, dar oare ce se petrece înl?untrul nostru se vede È™i din afar?? Un om poart? în suflet un foc imens È™i nimeni nu vine niciodat? s? se înc?lzeasc? la el, iar trec?torii nu desluÈ™esc decât un firicel de fum, sus la gura hornului, È™i-È™i caut? mai departe de drum.

I couldn't care less what the colours are in reality.

Je t'ai envoyé aujourd'hui mon portrait à moi; il faut le regarder pendant quelque temps, tu verras, j'espère que ma physionomie s'est bien calmée, quoique le regard soit vague davantage qu'auparavant, à ce qui me parait.

For look: people used to think that the earth was flat. That was true, and still is today, of, say, Paris to Asniéres. But that does not alter the fact that science demonstrates that the earth as a whole is round, something nobody nowadays disputes. For all that, people still persist in thinking that life is flat and runs from birth to death. But life, too, is probably round, and much greater in scope and possibilities than the hemisphere we now know.

Painters understand nature & love her & teach us to see.

Painting a picture is as difficult as finding a large or a small diamond. Now, however, whereas everybody recognizes the value of a louis d'or or a pure pearl, those who cherish pictures and believe in them are unfortunately rare. But they exist nonetheless.

Cada vez mais eu acho que não se deve julgar o bom Deus a partir deste mundo daqui, pois este é um estudo seu que não deu certo.