114 quotes
“Perception is the medium through which states of being unfold as visual sensation”
— Bridget Riley
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
— Seneca
“Things do not change; we change.”
— Thoreau
“The moth does not see the flame as fire; the fish does not feel the water as wet. So we do not notice the medium of our own lives.”
— Zhuangzi
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is — infinite.”
— William Blake
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”
— Wayne Dyer
“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
— Anaïs Nin
“When you are unborn you see things as they are without trying to judge them”
— Bankei
“Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.”
— Unknown
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“It is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things.”
— Epictetus
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower. To hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour is true peace.”
“To be is to be perceived.”
— George Berkeley
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
— William Shakespeare
“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”
— Plato
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
— Abraham Maslow
“If you believe it will work out you will see opportunities. If you believe it will not you will see obstacles.”
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower.”
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
— Confucius
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
— Nicolo Machiavelli
“Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.”
— Erich Fromm
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.”
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment”
— Marcus Aurelius
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
“The observer when he seems to himself to be observing a stone is really observing the effects of the stone upon himself.”
— Bertrand Russell
“We do not see things as they are we see them as we are”
— Anais Nin
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.”
“No one is happy who does not think himself so.”
— Publilius Syrus
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so and conversely every lot is happy if you are content with it”
— Boethius
“Since we cannot change reality let us change the eyes which see reality”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.”
“We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgments about them.”
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
— W.B. Yeats
“I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly because they are surrounded by things like that all day long”
— Robert Rauschenberg
“The world will never starve for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“We do not see things as they are we see them as we are. Seeing with peaceful eyes changes everything.”
“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
— John Milton
“You will see it when you believe it.”
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it”
— Andy Warhol
“The world is not what I think, but what I live through.”
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.”
“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.”
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it”
“Through our eyes the universe is perceiving itself through our ears the universe is listening to its harmonies”
— Alan Watts
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.”
“The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen”
— Diane Arbus
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new creative eyes.”
“Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: nobody knew the color of the darkness that enveloped them.”
— Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is infinite.”
— Aldous Huxley
“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
— Edgar Degas
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
“Perception is the medium through which I work”
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
— Henri Bergson
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
— David Hume
“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight; but there is a beauty for the hearing too.”
— Plotinus
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
“Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.”
“I want to alter the way space is perceived and used”
— Gordon Matta-Clark
“To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).”
“He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.”
— Thomas Fuller
“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change”
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
— Henri Matisse
“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change”
“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. Peace comes from reading it rightly.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Life and dreams are leaves of the same book. Reading them in order is living; browsing through them is dreaming.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower”
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“The rain has stopped, the clouds have drifted away, and the weather is clear again. If your heart is pure, then all things in your world are pure.”
— Ryokan
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
— Jonathan Swift
“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.”
— Jesus of Nazareth
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
“Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation and every act of creation is full of wonder”
— Oliver Sacks
“A perception sudden as blinking that subject and object are one will lead to a deeply mysterious wordless understanding”
— Huang Po
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour”
“The creative eye does not see things as they are but as it is. Creativity transforms perception.”
— Italo Calvino
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