perceptual accuracy Quotes

Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality

They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.

Perception and reality are two different things.

No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

I don't exaggerate - I just remember big.

I can only draw what I see.

What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.

The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.