Perception Quotes

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

~ Roma Tearne

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

~ Criss Jami

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn’t have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that’s it. That’s all an artist does.

~ Tom Robbins

There is something about the act of studying an unclothed body, as an artist does, that allows a person to appreciate it as pure form, regardless of the kinds of traits traditionally regarded as imperfections. In a figure drawing class, an obese woman's folds of flesh take on a kind of beauty. You can look at a man's shrunken chest or legs or buttocks with tenderness. Age is not ugly, just poignant.

~ Joyce Maynard

A storyteller who provided us with such a profusion of details would rapidly grow maddening. Unfortunately, life itself often subscribes to this mode of storytelling, wearing us out with repetition, misleading emphases and inconsequential plot lines. It insists on showing us Bardak Electronics, the saftey handle in the car, a stray dog, a Christmas card and a fly that lands first on the rim and then in the centre of the ashtray.Which explains how the curious phenomenon whereby valuable elements may be easier to experience in art and in anticipation than in reality. The anticipatory and artistic imaginations omit and compress; they cut away the periods of boredom and direct our attention to critical moments, and thus, without either lying or embellishing, they lend to life a vividness and a coherence that it may lack in the distracting wooliness of the present.

~ Alain De Botton

The tragedy of art is the misalignment of merit and the perception thereof. A hype is a classic example of positive (from the creator’s perspective) misalignment. Van Gogh is a classic example of negative misalignment, a poor laggard who may enjoy the fruits of his labour rotting under the ground. Van Gogh went unrecognized, ostracized, and is now celebrated as many who have come before him, and many who will come after him. Therefore, I declare here, the Wisdom of the Crowd does not apply to art.

~ Kevin Focke

Books are a portable kind of time travel. We go back as well as forward when we read them. When we come back into the now, after being immersed in worlds previously unknown to us, we find ourselves, transformed. Touched by their magic, nothing we ever perceived beforehand remains quite the same.

~ Suzy Davies

Fear and paranoia create many of our worldly struggles. We get something in our minds and our distorted perception sculpts the reality of what we see. Even though what we see isn’t really there, we tend to act as if it is. We then begin to put people and things into boxes, labeling them, and limiting them due to our fears.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

~ Criss Jami

Just when you think you know.....you don't know.

~ Nanette Mathews

Well, the terrible fact is that though we are all more or less thinking of something or other all the time, some of us are thinking more and some less.Some brains are battling and working and remembering and puzzling things over all the time and other brains are just lying down, snoring and occasionally turning over. It is to the lazy minds that I am now speaking, and from my own experience I imagine this includes nineteen people out of every twenty. I am one of that clan myself and always have been.

~ Ted Hughes

You cannot control life, but you can change the way you see life.Animals other than man are more fulfilled, because they have less mind blocking life, but they are stuck with the perspective and perception they are born with. We (human beings) can greatly improve our perception by learning the ultimate truth.All the problems we have stem from people not knowing the truth of life.

~ Michael Smith

You can never make someone like something they don't like, but you can always help them to better understand it.

~ Criss Jami

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

~ Criss Jami

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.

~ Criss Jami

Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and their delusions are their own bible story. To break them free, is to break their faith in signs. That is why so many feel lost.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

~ James Anthony Froude

The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.

~ Agatha Christie

Humans see what they want to see.

~ Rick Riordan

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.Their language has been lost.But not the gestures.

~ Vera Nazarian

The very air they breathed was almost a juice.

~ Rebecca Wells

Heaven is all around us. All we need is perception, to extol the melodies of Nature's orchestra.

~ Anurag Shourie

Why does everyone see me as a sink when I am an ocean?

~ Maria Elena

If spectacle is lacking in everyday life, it may be because we have forgotten where and how to look.

~ Nel Noddings

The interlocking network of stalks and branches and creepers was skeletal, the fossil yard of an extinct species of fineboned insectoid creatures. all of these bones, then, seemed to have been stained by sun and earth from an original living white to brown, and not the tough fibrous flower and seed-spilling green they actually once had been. Howard wondered about a man who had never seen summer, a winter man, examining the weeds and making this inference -- that he was looking at an ossuary. the man would take that as true and base his ideas of the world on that mistake.

~ Paul Harding

To live, to truly live, one must consider each and every thing a blessing.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Things are not real, but they are the reflection of our imaginations and perceptions.

~ Debasish Mridha

The world is a living mirror. With the light of your perception, you see yourself in it every moment.

~ Debasish Mridha

Be bold. Be not fearful. Take actions. Action is real. Results requires interpretation and depends on perception.

~ Debasish Mridha

Nothing is perfect, nothing is imperfect. Perfection and imperfection reside in your perception.

~ Debasish Mridha

Trust the perception not the presentation.

~ Debasish Mridha

Why is my perception right? If it is wrong, then what is right?

~ Debasish Mridha

There is no stress. It is a misinterpretation of a situation. Just change your perception and stress will melt away.

~ Debasish Mridha

Explanations can’t explain love--only deep perception can do that.

~ Debasish Mridha

Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition.

~ Debasish Mridha

To solve a problem, change your awareness, perception, and consciousness about the problem.

~ Debasish Mridha

Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, What else could this mean?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.

~ Hippocrates

There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

~ Wallace Stegner