Perceptual Shift Quotes

When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.

Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.

Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.

Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of the established reality principle...The encounter with the truth of art happens in the estranging language and images which make perceptible, visible, and audible that which is no longer, or not yet, perceived, said, and heard in everyday life.

I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.

Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.

Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.

I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

But when this happens to you - and I think other people would identify with this - suddenly, colors are brighter. You see everything.

Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.