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Quotes About Perception

Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.
~ Jan Morris
Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them
~ Lev S. Vygotsky
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
~ Immanuel Kant
That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
~ Dogen
A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.
~ Mark Rothko
My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.
~ James Turrell
The only source of knowledge is experience.
~ Albert Einstein
You bring to a painting your own experience.
~ Jacob Lawrence
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.
~ Rupert Spira
It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.
~ Josh Schwartz
The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.
~ Mark Rothko
Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.
~ John Pawson
Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.
~ D. H. Lawrence
You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.
~ Stefan Sagmeister
To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
~ Shoshana Zuboff
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
~ Paul Cezanne
How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.
~ Sam Harris
Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Experience is a form of paralysis.
~ Erik Satie
We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.
~ Andy Puddicombe
The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture, and ourselves are united in one mystery.
~ Rene Magritte
People react positively when things are clear and understandable.
~ Dieter Rams