Quotes About Perception

Prison is a process, a succession of imprisonments. At first it operates only on a physical level, restricting your movement. Later, it extends to the psychological plane, encompassing your very perception. You come to exclude all thoughts, all visions of the free world.

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

Small breasts are best for the long haul.

Very goodlooking people are as a rule more forgetful than the median. Their mothers start it and the world at large continues it, handing them things, picking things up for them, smoothing their vicinity out for them in every way. I on the other hand remember everything.

This might be good, I thought as I studied the crowd. There were several definitely intelligen?t guys present, not strobe-lig?ht intellects but people who could make you uncomforta?ble in a debate if you got too much beyond what you absolutely had the facts on.

Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.

Imagination creates reality, and as desire is a part of imagination, the world we desire is more real than the world we passively accept.

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of quaint, and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.

Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation…

Anyone measuring his mind against an external reality has to fall back on an axiom of faith.

Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.

Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.

Pour la majorité des gens, le physique compte en amitié et même pour les relations les plus élémentaires....je parle de cette chose si vague et si importante que l'on nomme physionomie. AU premier coup d'oeil, il y a des êtres qu'on aime et des malheureux qu'on ne peut pas encadrer. Le nier serait une injustice supplémentaire.

We totter now on a precipice, the ground shaking beneath us. Yet most of us still imagine that the future will resemble the past. That's a whopping mistake. New warning signs look clear and compelling.

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

We are close to waking when we dream that we are dreaming.

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand