Perceptual Interpretation Quotes

How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.

I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not in the external world. I asked, was it a mere nervous impression a delusion? I could not conceive or believe: it was more like an inspiration.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.