1,601 Quotes About Perception

You won't understand anything about imagination until you realise that it's not about making things up, it's about perception.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

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

The aim of an artist is to show us something we cannot see on our own.

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

Words have ruined the standard beauty and Numbers have exaggerated the weight of wealth.

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?