Quotes about Perception

He must be suffering, too. She had noted the weary sag of his shoulders, the quivering lips, the tear- filled eyes. Somehow she had never thought of him as hurting- of being capable of understanding how she felt.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

Human nature being what it is, if you told me you were going to give me one dollar with no strings attached, I probably wouldn't question the gift too much. But if you told me you wanted to give me one hundred dollars with no obligation, I'd have to think about it for a minute before accepting.

People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it's an illusory sense of control.

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

The media wants me to change, but it would be very dishonest to supporters to do so.