Perception Quotes

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness" "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are" "People are bloody ignorant apes." "Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and beholder" "The work of memory collapses time" "Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange" "Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind." "The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes" "Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them" "This world is but a canvas to our imagination" "Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are" "I think we are increasingly identifying with the visual because it is more immediate than corrective" "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it" "Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world." "Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle." "I've been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid, and I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that when you dream you’re creating a world that feels real and yet is fundamentally unreal." "I don’t think film is like other art forms in that it’s a thing; it’s not a finished object, it’s an experience" "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are" "A man who died at thirty-five will appear to distant generations as a young man, almost a boy, while his contemporaries who reached a ripe old age will always seem to me to have been born old." "To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."