Quotes About Perception

I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right.

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

Don't you think baby corns are scary? There's just something wrong about their midget bodies.

My mama told me don't trust no white boy, even a pretty one. I'm thinkin' a pretty white boy with wings explodin' up from the ground in a mess of blood and ugly-ass bird things is double trouble." - Kramisha (Ch 5)

You are not my mother. You are a scary Snort!

Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

If anyone ever told five-year-olds the truth about life, he thought, there'd be a rash of kindergarten suicides.

Did you realize that 90 to 99 percent of what goes on in the universe is either infra (below) or ultra (beyond) our faculties of perception? Because of this, at any given moment, we are only aware of a small fraction of what is happening within or around us. Our perceptual range expands

Thoughts are just as real as words.

Dr. Franklin says "it is the eyes of others and not our own eyes which ruin us. If all the world were blind except myself I should not care for fine clothes or furniture.

it is the eyes of others and not our own eyes which ruin us. If all the world were blind except myself I should not care for fine clothes or furniture.

The worm hissed. "You said it couldn't see!" shouted Oates, forgetting Umber's instruction to be silent. He shook a fist. "We all heard it, Umber! You specifically said, it couldn't see!" "I know-isn't it wonderful to learn something new?" Umber laughed.

when something seems complicated, we do not understand it, but when we do understand something, it has become simple.

Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work cannot always live in the present, it must not be considered art at all.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Art is a lie that tells the truth.