Quotes About Perception

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.

The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Sunflowers are like people to me.

Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be 'wrong', which is what our education encourages us to believe.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Reality is for people that lack imagination.

There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.