Quotes About Perception

And we talked to each other at a restaurant and I was supposed to order wine and I would much rather have had something to eat. But that's just like them — they don't mind paying large sums for something to drink, but as soon as they have to pay just a small amount for something to eat they feel taken advantage of, because food is a necessity, but having a drink is superfluous and therefore elegant.

And the real actors look down on those from the drama school and are sure to let them know. They also look down on each other, but that they don't show too much. In any case, there's a hell of a lot of looking down on each other, and everyone thinks they're the only one who's wonderful. And the janitors are the only ones who act like normal people and greet you when you say hello to them.

Sometimes there are mirrors that make me look like an old woman. That's the way it's going to be thirty years from now.

But I could just as well turn into a Hulla--and if I became a star, I might actually be a worse person than a Hulla, who was good. Perhaps glamour isn't all that important after all.

Was man glaubt, gibt es.

But Godenheimer's had the best and cheapest silver foxes, and buttered Frau Breitwehr up, and called her "Madam" every other sentence. So she bought the silver fox fur. When she wears it, they look like a rich fur taking a poor woman out for a walk.

Pretty girls are a business' I say, 'and that has nothing do to with love

And that's what's important: how you react to someone while they're sleeping and not exerting any influence over you.

Je n'ai jamais compris pourquoi certains de mes camarades de guerre en voulaient tellement aux femmes et aux jeunes filles qui regardaient du côté des soldats alliés. Mon Dieu, n'avait-on pas ressassé des années durant à ces pauvres créatures que le héros en uniforme, le beau mâle vainqueur devait être l'idéal suprême de la femme. On leur avait appris: tout ce qui est allemand est vainqueur - et tout ce qui est vainqueur est allemand.

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived

When we lack the will to see things as they really are, there is nothing so mystifying as the obvious.

What rules the world is ideas, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.

We'll mark the butterflies disappearing over the hedge with tiny wristwatches on their wings: our fingers touching the earth, like two Buddhas

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

How difficult it is to be simple.

Normal people do not create art.

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

On croit que j'imagine — ce n'est pas vrai — je me souviens. [They say I imagine — it is not true — I remember.]

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint life one must understand not only anatomy, but what people feel and think about the world they live in. The painter who knows his own craft and nothing else will turn out to be a very superficial artist.

For the middle majority of us all, knowledge of Negroes firsthand is probably limited—limited to the colored cleaning woman, who comes twice a week, limited to the colored baseball player who saves or loses a home game, limited to the garage mechanic, or dime-store clerk, or blues singer seen and heard on a Saturday night. To this white majority, the black man is as unknown as once was the heart of the Dark Continent of Africa.