Quotes about Perception
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
— Anais Nin
A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.
— Thomas Paine
And unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are all wall-eyed.
— DH Lawrence
I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?
— JM Coetzee
The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.
— J. Oswald Sanders
If only we could eat our sunsets, I say, we would all be full.
— JM Coetzee
And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant
— JM Coetzee
They do us honor by seeing gods in us, and we respond by treating them like things.
— JM Coetzee
Does it surprise you as much as it does me, this correspondence between things as they are and the pictures we have of them in our minds?
— JM Coetzee
Pain is nothing, just a warning signal from the body to the brain. Pain is no more the real thing than an X-ray photograph is the real thing. Biut of course he is wrong.
— JM Coetzee
we also first beheld Unveiled the summit of Mont Blanc, and grieved To have a soulless image on the eye That had usurped upon a living thought That never more could be.
— JM Coetzee
The world is more various than we ever give it credit for.
— JM Coetzee