Quotes about Perception

Women's creativity is called craft and is sold cheap; when men create, the result is called art and is costly, like Maurizio Cattelan's banana taped to a Miami art gallery wall with a price tag of US$120,000.

I like fabrics, colors, makeup, and the routine of putting myself together every morning, even though I spend most of my time locked away in the attic writing. "No one sees me, but I see myself," my mother would comment philosophically

the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously—

I think he tries to be nice. But he has absolutely zero self-awareness. None. Zip. So we see the public Donald Trump, the candidate, as being different than the in-person Donald Trump.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

Colors speak all languages.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

I knew I was drunk. I felt sophisticated and couldn't pronounce it.

You can tell German wine from vinegar ... by the label.