Quotes About Perception

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

I've learned that ayahuasca works in levels, a little like peeling an onion. It is complex and something you really have to experience to understand.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits.

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

The universe is contained within us, and what we experience externally is only a reflection.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

The only real experience that counts, is your own.

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides.

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.