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Quotes About Perception

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.
~ Abraham Maslow
The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.
~ Unknown
Every experience permanently alters the way you perceive beauty
~ Katharine Hamnett
Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.
~ Michael Joseph Oakeshott
I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.
~ Sophia Bush
The level of consciousness you choose to tune in to each moment of each day will determine the quality of your experience of the world.
~ Debbie Ford
I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.
~ Rebecca Horn
Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds.
~ Wallace Pratt
Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
~ Ben Nicholson
A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors.
~ Johannes Itten
I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.
~ Jane Lynch
The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.
~ Unknown
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
~ Helmut Jahn
A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.
~ Shomei Tomatsu
We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.
~ Helmut Jahn
Sometimes experience trumps assumption.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
We can only learn about creativity through our own experience of it.
~ Shaun McNiff
I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.
~ Paul Bettany
An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
~ Andre Gide