Perception Quotes

"It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them." "Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. " "He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. " "I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. " "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. " "Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth" "Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen." "Youth has no age." "Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people." "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." "As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed." "Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things." "If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." "You are as old as you think you are." "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak." "It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement." "The madman is a dreamer awake." "Don’t waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear." "I would only call someone an idiot if people were mistakenly under the impression that the person was smart." "I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."