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Quotes About Perception

Everything you experience mirrors a part of you.
~ Alberto Villoldo
Art is an experience, not an object.
~ Robert Motherwell
The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
~ Jacques Lacan
Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
~ Damon Lindelof
Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.
~ Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.
~ T. S. Eliot
Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.
~ Peter Schjeldahl
Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.
~ Jean-Louis Gassee
Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
~ Unknown
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
~ Unknown
The viewer brings something individual to the experience of any artwork.
~ Olafur Eliasson
The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.
~ Joseph Goebbels
Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.
~ Kenneth Kaunda
We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence.
~ Duane Elgin
There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.
~ Haruki Murakami
When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.
~ Fred Alan Wolf
The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience.
~ Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.
~ Timothy Leary
Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
~ C. S. Lewis
Art is not about understanding, it's about experience.
~ Antony Gormley
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
~ John Locke
What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.
~ Tracey Emin
The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.
~ Samuel Mockbee