Spatial Cognition Quotes

When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.

Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.

To conjure a particular knowledge you visualize an architectural structure and then you walk around and see the details that then bring back the words or the poetry or the lines of thought. Memory's going extinct because we rely on machines and copies and so on. The idea of working with structures that conjure dreams, personages, history, time, that can be contained in this way as you walk through your mind, is a challenge.

Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it.

Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.

There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.

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

Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts about places, paths, motions, agency, and causation underlie the literal or figurative meanings of tens of thousands of words and constructions, not only in English but in every other language that has been studied.

Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.

Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws that govern the visual world, and to the supreme enjoyment that comes from participating in the creative process of giving form to one's living space.