Fiona Apple Quotes

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

You can't be conscious unless you have variable receptors... When people say the way I see the world is the way it is - that's ridiculous. We can only see it depending on the quality of our receptors and background.

We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of the world and direct our attention to certain things around us. In other words, they help us learn how to see.

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

Color is just in a small area of our vision, and the rest we add with the mind.

Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it - especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not usually admitted on the scene.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.

The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.

To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.

People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.