Read quote“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”
About Perception
How people interpret, experience, and make sense of reality.
The collection
Words on Perception
Read quote“Limits like fears are often just an illusion.”
Read quote“Upon hearing the Vietnamese women talking to each other, I thought that I heard the birds whistling and was afraid that I would never be able to learn the language.”
Read quote“Their esse is percipi.”
Read quote“Please don't judge me by one side of my music.”
Read quote“Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.”
Read quote“Tout notre contact avec le monde a lieu à travers le corps, toute l’intentionnalité sensible passe par le corps.”
Read quote“The proportion of citizens afraid of being victims of crime is substantially higher than the proportion of persons who are actual victims of violent crime.”
Read quote“Night does not show things, it suggests them.”
Read quote“Their esse is percipi; nor is it possible they should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them.”
Read quote“I never put anything into a picture that I don’t actually see when I’m painting a subject.”
Read quote“being sensible of the necessity of attending to nature as the fountainhead of all perfection”
Read quote“Art gives the ability to look at the world anew.”
Read quote“I am kino-eye, I am a mechanical eye.”
Read quote“The eye is a way into the mystery.”
Read quote“Shut your eyes and see.”
Read quote“What I’m interested in is not symbols, but images.”
Read quote“The instability of color, which is what I'm most involved with, the color is, through interaction.”
Read quote“In war, I never knew anything beyond what I could see and hear.”
Read quote“I want to know what's behind the facade.”
