Quotes about Perception
A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.
— John Donne
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
— Madeleine L'Engle
There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
— Margaret Atwood
Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
— Pablo Picasso
One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
— Vincent Van Gogh
That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
— Pema Chodron
I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude.
— Chuck Smith
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
— Stephen Covey
The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away.
— Marc Chagall
Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen