Perceptual Understanding Quotes

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me, it's always instinctively been about sound making and trying to extract information, grammar, meaning from sound making. That's been my way of navigating reality that's very personal; a painter might say they make marks or look.

What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.

There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

You don't eat a painting of an apple; you don't find it morally good. Instead, it tells you something strange about apples in themselves.

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the Irishman's reckoning of seven senses. I presume the Irishman's seventh sense was common sense; and I believe that the possession of that virtue by my countrymen-I speak as an Irishman.

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.

How slowly one comes to understand anything!

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.