Quotes About Perception

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.

When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong.

You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination

By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ of imagination.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.