Quotes About Perception

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

If you think I have a great voice and body, youll be shocked as hell seeing and hearing me in the shower.

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

A great book is like great evil.

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.

Great art changes you.

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.