Quotes About Perception

Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination

It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.

The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.

Where beams of imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.

I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we imagine and the things that exist.

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.

It's beyond imagination until you actually get up and see it and experience it and feel it.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.