Quotes about Perception

it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting.

For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly.

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

I couldn't care less what the colours are in reality.

So now, when anyone says that such and such is done too quickly, you can reply that they have looked at it too quickly.

I'd wish that everyone had what I'm gradually beginning to acquire, the ability to read a book easily and quickly and to retain a strong impression of it. Reading books is like looking at paintings: without doubting, without hesitating, with self-assurance, one must find beautiful that which is beautiful.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.

But if Christians don't get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?