Top 1200 Perception Of Beauty Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are. When the delicious beauty of lineament loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared, that an interior and durable form has been disclosed.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us.

Organized perception is what art is all about.

I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.

Once a bustling logging town, Sandpoint has embraced its natural beauty to become an amazing resort town drawing people near and far to enjoy its beauty and recreational possibilities. It's truly a small town with a huge backyard.

Perception is real even when it is not reality.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends.

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty in it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties.

My perspective will create my perception

And that is what the perception is by the American left, who hates Christendom.

What I had to learn was, that I'm responsible for my perception of things.

I think glamour is a perception, and I am not against it.

The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty.

It is a common perception that actors don’t get along.

The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.

Perception and reality are two different things.

Modern morality is all about perception.

I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.

I'm very aware of my image and the perception of me.

Miracles are simply a change in perception.

Perception is made up of bands.

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.

If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroying—or at least deconstructing—conventional ideas of beauty, of the generic appeal of the beautiful, glamorous, bourgeois woman. Fashion fosters clichés of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature. The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.

Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between a person and his or her industry. Beauty is expression. When I paint a mother I try to render her beautiful by the mere look she gives her child.

God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.

A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.

What the canons of beauty transmit is an idea of taking care of yourself. Eating well, living healthily, doing sports. It's a way to highlight the natural beauty in each of us. The natural body that all of us are born with.

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of their beauty and dignity, is worth a week's seasickness to experience... [to me] the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

I've always been blessed, or cursed, with perception.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

Religion starts with the perception that something is wrong.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

Life is not black and white when it comes to perception.

The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

Truth is never negative. Only one's perception of it is.

People have a perception of you and that's very difficult to change.

The new limitations are the human ones of perception.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

I understand the difference between perception and reality.

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.

Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

Human perception is literally incarnation.

poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.

It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt.

In mysticism we deal with dreaming and the fields of perception.