Quotes About Perception

But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.

Words tumble in helpless disorder. The dead speak. We have forgotten how to listen.

We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality (p.43)

Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory. — Patti Smith, M Train (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015)

Nobody sees as we do, Patti

I can examine how, but not why, I wrote what I did, or why I had so perversely deviated from my original path. Can one, tracking and successfully collaring a criminal, truly comprehend the criminal mind? Can we truly separate the how and the why?

Will you take a picture? she said. I looked down at the bleak panorama and shook my head. How could I take a picture of nothing?

the signs that mock me as I go.

In the green of the hills, he saw red.' p.13

I finally placed where the images in my morning dream might have come from - the Battle of Shiloh in the Civil War. Thousands of young soldiers lay dead on the battleground in a peach orchard in full bloom. It was said that the blossoms fell upon them, covering them like a thin layer of fragrant snow. I wondered why I had dreamed that, but then again, why do we dream about anything?

Da lui ho imparato che la contraddizione è spesso la più limpida forma di verità

From my small terrace I caught the moment when drapes of cloud dropped upon the ground. I had never seen such a thing and lamented I was without film for my camera. On the other hand I was able to experience the moment completely unburdened.

I'm certain, as we filed down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve-year-old, all arms and legs. But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.

When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us.

He figured out what he wanted to see by seeing himself." (About Robert Mapplethorpe)

It occurs to me that the young look beautiful as they sleep and the old, such as myself, look dead.

You see, there's a saying carved in Old English on a wooden plank on one of the oldest structures built in America. This is Tangier Island. As it goes, so do we. —Have you actually seen it? I asked. —You don't see things like that. You feel them, as in all important things; they arrive, they come into your dreams. For instance, he added slyly, you're dreaming now.

that without a doubt we sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality

Coloring excited him, not the act of filling in space, but choosing colors that no one else would select. In the green of the hills he saw red. Purple snow, green skin, silver sun. He liked the effect it had on others, that it disturbed his siblings.

A few hours later, she was back. As she slipped off her slingback heels and rubbed her ankles, she said, "Boy, when he says, 'Come up and see my etchings,' he means 'Come up and see my etchings.

We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.

Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.

Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.

On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette ' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.