perception Quotes

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.