Quotes About Perception

Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.

STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I've seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.

Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people's. (Are we all under this illusion?)

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience.

The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things.

A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

In my experience the difference between a straight and a bisexual is about four pints

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.

Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.

You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion

The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.