Quotes About Perception

Existir, percibir Existir, percibir, Ser una suerte de residuo perceptivo (si se puede decir así) En la sala de embarque de la terminal 2D de Roissy, Esperando el vuelo con destino Alicante Donde mi vida proseguirá Durante algunos años aún En compañía de mi perrito Y de las alegrías (cada vez más breves) Y del aumento regular de las dolencias En esos años que preceden de forma inmediata a la muerte.

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

It's hard to understand other people, to know what's hidden in their hearts, and without the assistance of alcohol it might never be done at all.

La posibilidad de vivir empieza en la mirada del otro

La civilización ha desnaturalizado así al animal que somos para transformarnos en observadores del mundo al precio de una deplorable incapacidad para olerlo y degustarlo. Así es como nos apartamos cada vez más de lo real para contentarnos con gozar de las imágenes que lo representan.

La dire, c'est souvent ne pas la vivre. La dire abondamment, c'est souvent la vivre petitement.

Le pecore bianche fanno «Beh!», le pecore nere fanno «Meh!».

The given - forgive me - what is marketable, is only given - forgive me - is only sold in and through language. [...] Triumphant, the word redeems anything that could lend taste or aroma and transubstantiates it into something seen and read and heard, the channels that are peculiar to it. This - what you eat and drink - is the body and blood of the word. Here - where you buy it - lies the grave of bread and wine, body and blood, dead and resuscitated as messages.

When I think a given concept, I am entirely this concept, when I think tree, I am the tree, when I think river, I am the river, when I think number, I am through and through and from head to toe, number. that is the unquestionable experience of thinking.

Mon boucher : «Monsieur Tournier, quand on vous connaît comme moi en vrai, on n'a pas besoin de lire vos livres, hein?»

Cine doarme este un alienat care se crede mort.

Acaba büyüdüÄŸüm için miydi? Eskiden ayn? yerlerde toplad???m mantarlar galiba bugünkülerden çok daha güzeldi. GeçmiÅŸin yald?zl? sisleri, en basit ÅŸeyleri mükemmele dönüÅŸtürüyorsunuz!" O, ErmiÅŸler Bayram? Mantarlar?

S?cak yaz günlerimi üst üste s?ralanm?? dallar?nda rüzgar?n ninnisini dinleyerek geçirdiÄŸim iki ulu köknar?n ortadan yok oluÅŸu dikkatimi çekiyor. Onlar da ha! Oysa ben onlar? kal?c?, y?k?lmaz san?rd?m.- O, ErmiÅŸler Bayram? Mantar?.

L'image est douée d'une force mauvaise. Elle n'est pas la servante dévouée et fidèle que tu voudrais. Elle prend toutes les apparences d'une servante, oui, mais en vérité elle est sournoise, menteuse et impérieuse. Elle aspire de toute sa mauvaiseté à te reduire en esclavage.

I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men.

Mes yeux avaient fini par s'habituer à la noirceur et je l'ai vu sortir un grand mouchoir de sa poche de pantalon. Il s'est essuyé les yeux, s'est mouché. Le mouchoir virevoltait dans le noir comme un petit fantôme blanc.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.

Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

We know that under the image revealed there is another which is truer to reality and under this image still another and yet again still another under this last one, right down to the true image of that reality, absolute, mysterious, which no one will ever see or perhaps right down to the decomposition of any image, of any reality.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.