Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.
There's a misconception that maybe I'm overly confident or a little vapid or that I am a stereotypical, bratty, spoiled girl who doesn't have much to bring to the table other than how people perceive her physically.
I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.
I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.
Does this feel warmer or colder?
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
Being 230 pounds, a lot of people don't think you can move the way I need to move, so that is just all the hard work I put into my legs and working on my speed and my legs.
He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind.
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
In stand up, you get an awareness of how you come across, but in acting there is almost a hyper-awareness on how you might be physically perceived.
Our body awareness in the West is ridiculous.
You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.
I used to be unusually short, and I think I'd prefer that to being unusually tall.
We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.
Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.
