Sensations Quotes - Page 24

• The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

  Stanley Smith Stevens

  Method, Magnitude, Direct

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• Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.

  Sophie Thompson

  Beautiful, Thinking, Theatre

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• What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

  C. S. Lewis

  Soul, Would Be, Matter

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is pulling you up the mountain. You're headed toward Yosemite more than 4,000 feet of pounding the pedals. You are aware of every movement because your thighs feel tender with a sensation of pain. You push on, toward the final ascent into the valley. In front of you is a monster mountain-El Capitan. Your eyes grow wide. You take a deep breath. Suddenly, you feel only wonder.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Travel, Pain, Eye

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• I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable to verbalize what I feel when I perceive something beautiful. Sometimes it's a pang or a sensation; at other times it is an awareness of joy and security or pure pleasure. In any event, it is a moment to be celebrated. Beauty justifies itself. The fact that it is beyond definition means nothing.

  Luci Swindoll

  Beauty, Beautiful, Mean

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• Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don't recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so much sensation, I can't feel a thing. Simple. Living. Got to get to simple - living. Simple living. Simple... simply living.

  Fred Small

  Lying, Simple, Light

  "Environmental Songs". Interview with Steve Curwood, www.planetpatriot.net. April 18, 1997.

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• You may feel a sensation of floating. You may see colors, maybe no phenomena, it doesn't matter. You are absorbing power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Color, Floating, May

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• We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Reality, Giving

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.134, M-y books ltd

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• The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

  Charles Dickens

  Wind, East, Now And Then

  'Bleak House' (1853) ch. 6 (Mr Jarndyce)

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• I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

  Pablo Picasso

  Feelings, Vision, Purpose

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him

  Charles Kingsley

  Grief, First Love, Men

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• From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.

  Henri Matisse

  Portraits, Faces, Firsts

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• Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.

  Georges Braque

  Space, Giving, Colour

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• The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.

  Odilon Redon

  Eye, Artist, Soul

  Michael Wilson, Odilon Redon (1978). “Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon”, Phaidon Press

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• The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.

  Paul Gauguin

  Artist, Expression, Brain

  Paul Gauguin (1955). “An Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings & Sculpture [by] Gauguin”

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• Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.

  Claude Monet

  Thinking, Singers, Instinct

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• I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

  Claude Monet

  Mistake, Good Man, Despair

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.

  Isaac Newton

  Rays, Speak, Disposition

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• Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.

  Robert Henri

  Color, Two, Giving

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Moving, Giving

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• Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

  Angela Carter

  Art, Past, Needs

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• Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art... It's like touching skin.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Touching, Skins

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• To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

  Yves Klein

  Communication, Vocabulary, Soul

  Sidra Stich, Yves Klein, Hayward Gallery, Museum Ludwig, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) (1994). “Yves Klein”

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• it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Men, Desire

  Sir Winston Churchill (1956). “Savrola: a tale of the revolution in Laurania”, Random

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• I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Opportunity, Thinking, Years

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