Quotes About Perception

I barely gave my appearance a thought. My animals didn't care about my outer shell, they certainly didn't love me for my appearance. They probably had no sense of beauty whatsoever; I can't imagine that a human being would have seemed beautiful to them.

Solo sabemos de verdad una cosa cuando el conocimiento de ella se extiende lentamente por todo el cuerpo.

Ce n'est que lorsque la connaissance d'une chose se répand dans le corps qu'on la sait vraiment. C'est ainsi que je n'ignore pas, comme tout un chacun, que je vais mourir, mais mes pieds, mes mains, mes entrailles l'ignorent encore et c'est pourquoi la mort me semble irréelle.

Those like Brasini and those who are not like Brasini. Those who would take your face in their hands and kiss you like in the films and those who would never in ten million years take your face in their hands and kiss you like in the films. ...You are definitely a Brasini, sir. ...the Brasini theory,....

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

The Artwork as Misunderstanding There is a crisis with regard to Representation. They are looking for Meaning as if it was a thing. As if it was a girl, required to take her panties off as if she would want to do so, as soon as the true interpreter comes along. As if there was something to take off.

They're looking for meaning as if it were a Thing. As if it were a Girl, required to take her panty off, as if she would want to do so as soon as the true interpreter comes along. As if there were something to take off.

Artwork is not synonymous to intention. It is peculiar that although almost everybody says artworks don't give answers, they seem to be sure that a good work asks questions. It sounds like the other side of the same coin to me.

I can see why many visual artists dislike words in artworks. They feel that words dirty the clear water that has to reflect the sky. It disturbs the pleasure of the silent image, the freedom from history, the beauty of nameless forms. (...) I know that neither images nor words, can escape the drunkenness and longing caused by the turning of the world. Words and images drink the same wine. There is no purity to protect.

Words and images drink the same wine. There is no purity to protect.

Derealization—A feeling that one's surroundings are strange or unreal. Often involves previously familiar people.

Depersonalization—Detachment from one's self, e.g., a sense of looking at one's self as if one is an outsider.

I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the outside.

Regal Black Swan told me that in this world of personalities, there is always a duality. I had interpreted it as good versus bad, slavery or freedom, conformity and its opposite. But that is not the case. It is not black or white; it is always shades of gray. And most important, all the gray is moving in a progressive pattern back to the originator. I teased about our age and told him I needed another fifty years just for comprehension.

No conseguía comprender por qué ninguna de las personas con las que hablaba mostraba interés por los valores de Los Auténticos. Me di cuenta entonces de que veían una amenaza en comprender lo desconocido, en aceptar lo que parece diferente.

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.

You are very attractive, but the coat you're wearing makes me think you are either a very rich woman or a very rich man's mistress.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski.

The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

Nobody in the game uses their feet, but it's football. I love how Americans can just claim something to be whatever they feel it is, despite clear evidence it's not. Like a football game with nobody using any feet that takes forever.

If you lived all your life with monsters, what was monstrous?

Nobody ever own a gun. You don't know that until you own one.