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• The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

  Agnes Repplier

  World, Clear, Console

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.

  Hermann Hesse

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• The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

  Willa Cather

  Healing, Eye, Voice

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.50, Vintage

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I prefer to see with closed eyes.

  Josef Albers

  Eye, Closed Eyes, Abstraction

  Arts/Canada, Vol. 23, (p. 46), 1966.

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

  Richard Bach

  Motivational, Depression, Believe

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

  Samuel Beckett

  Experience, Vulgar, Concerned

  Samuel Beckett, Georges Duthuit (1965). “Proust”

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• Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

  Dan Millman

  Life, Pain, Attitude

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• Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Inspiration, Ideas, Giving

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• Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Miracle, Everyday, Happens

  Bon Jovi‏ @BonJovi, twitter.com. August 2, 2017.

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• Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

  Michelangelo

  Education, Artist, Perception Of Beauty

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• To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.

  Claude Simon

  Memories, Perspective, World

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

  Henri Bergson

  Mean, Perceive, Outrun

  "Matter and Memory".

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• Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

  Dean Mitchell

  Art, Paint, Brushes

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• Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a certain kind of experience is usually necessary in order to perceive it.

  Robert Motherwell

  Dream, Order, May

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• The perception of beauty is a moral test.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Beauty, Tests

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.120, Princeton University Press

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• The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Mind, Doe

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.64, Pearson Education

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• It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently as his muscles.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Law, Needs, Development

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• The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Focus, Awareness, Imagery

  "On the nature of visions". Lecture in Vienna, 1912.

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• Humans see what they want to see.

  Rick Riordan

  Ignorance, Knowing, Perspective

  "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief". Book by Rick Riordan, July 1, 2005.

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• Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to catch and fix by any means at hand. At such moments I am unconscious of materials, of style, of rules, of everything that intervenes between my perception and the object or idea perceived.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Mean, Hands, Color

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• In my view, the holy is not based so much on the physical environment, but on the experience and perceptions of it.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Views, Environment, Holy

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• What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.

  Daniel Levitin

  Art, Color, Echoes

  Daniel J. Levitin (2011). “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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