Quotes About Perception

The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.

Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.

It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think most people will ever get to experience how truly weird it is.

Experience first, then intellectualize.

For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

My experience is the opposite.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.

The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.

The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

I see my work as visual meditations on the human experience and my attempts to capture the thin, otherwordly realm I believe exists between what we see and what we cannot.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete

There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.

somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near

Any experience of reality is indescribable!

There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows is very much a part of the Indian experience.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

I once had an extraordinary experience with former prime minister Ted Heath. Both of his eyes, including the whites, turned jet black and I seemed to be looking into two black holes.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.

Age affects how people experience time.

Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.