Quotes About Perception

The forces you are struggling with, that you feel are holding you back - are illusions. They are not real - they never have been. See only the good that you desire in your mind.

Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.

Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.