Quotes About Perception

Academic writers are bad writers for three reasons. First, they want to sound smart. "If the water is dark," goes a German aphorism, "the lake must be deep." Instead of using good words like smart, they choose sophisticated or erudite.

I used to hang a "Do Not Disturb" sign on my office door, but people interpreted this as "His door is closed, but he wants me to know he's in there. I'll knock.") Be

After all, ... your eyes only see what your mind lets you believe.

there are a few acts more aggressive than describing someone else

It's all very well to say beauty is under the skin, or in the eye of the beholder, but no-one would say no to being prettier if they had the chance, so it is all rot.

Who is to say where you are?' Mirkady asked lightly. 'Some say there is a different world for every story ever told or untold, that there is no such thing as the here and now, only the unfolding of infinite possibilities, all of them real in some place or other.' 'In which case,' Dwarmo said, vastly amused, 'there is no such thing as a mistake.

Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.

Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible.

Art does not render what is visible, but renders visible.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern Kunst macht sichtbar.

I imagined face and genitals to be the corresponding poles of the female sex, when girls wept I thought of pudenda weeping in unison.

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

It is better to let people think you are a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

If he's the person i think he is, he'll handle it just right" Tarah had said. "If not, your better off without him.

then traced a fingertip across his forehead, around one eye, along the length of his nose. As if she wanted to later draw his likeness.

Our reputation is created out of earshot.

A shark without teeth is just a mermaid.

Esta tarde ví llover, Vi gente correr, y no estabas tu.