Perceptual Change Quotes

The eye altering, alters all.

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.

The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before.

The beauty of music is that everyone hears it their own way, and every song you hear leaves an impression on you that alters the way you hear everything from that point on.

Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.

The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.

What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.

My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories, and that in this sense it pervades them, although it does not itself come into view.

I used to think that you'd open the door, and there was Narnia. Increasingly, I think it's all around us.

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.

The artist must ask you to think of the world in a different way, and sometimes it's a more abstract way; sometimes it's a completely different kind of colouring.

Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.

The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.

After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.

The way a film can change over the generations... You watch a movie when you're 20 years old, and you see the same movie when you're 35 years old or 40 years old, and something happens. The movie changes because we change as individuals.

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.