Art Perception Quotes

#1. In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

Chuck Close

#2. Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.

Raphael Soyer

#3. Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.

Harold Bloom

#4. Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief.

Arthur Koestler

#5. Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

Dean Mitchell

#6. I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Criss Jami

#7. Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.

Jeremy Begbie

#8. I think that a good deal of poetry and art gives us some sense of access to another's voice, perception, texture of thought, imagination. Sometimes it gives us better access to the strangeness in ourselves.

Mary Szybist

#9. To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.

Virginia Woolf

#10. In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

Eric Kandel

#11. Organized perception is what art is all about.

Roy Lichtenstein

#12. Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

Arne Glimcher

#13. Sometimes we do grip the concert in a human head, and so hold it that in a way we get a record of it into paint, but the vision and expressing of one day will not do for the next.

Robert Henri

#14. Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes ... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas.

Arshile Gorky

#15. My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

J. M. W. Turner

#16. The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there's a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here to the highway in two minutes, but if I had a camera, that walk could take me two hours.

Jerry N. Uelsmann

#17. The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

Marilynne Robinson

#18. An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

Criss Jami

#19. Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.

Philippe Sollers

#20. I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.

Arshile Gorky

#21. Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.

Valerie Steele

#22. Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

Fred Tomaselli

#23. A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

Abbas Kiarostami

#24. Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

John Paul Caponigro

#25. The only way to teach focus is to present the eye with opportunities for steady perception - best supplied by the contemplation of art. Looking at art requires stillness and receptivity, which realign our senses and produce a magical tranquillity.

Camille Paglia

#26. There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#27. What is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.

Gabriel Orozco

#28. True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy

#29. Grey has no agenda ... Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

Roma Tearne

#30. No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Ansel Adams

#31. The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.

John Dewey

#32. Don't be cool. Like everything.

Shaky Kane

#33. Art is an expression of inner perception as an outer reality.

Debasish Mridha

#34. A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Beverly Sills

#35. Tarot Reading is an art based on intuition, interpretation, and perception.

Nikita Dudani

#36. And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

#37. Remember first, last and always, that before you can remember, or recollect, you must first perceive; and that perception is possible only through attention, and responds in degree to the latter. Therefore, it has truly been said that: "The great Art of Memory is Attention.

William Walker Atkinson

#38. But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then - all the combinations made - they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.

Leo Tolstoy

#39. Krav Maga heightens perception and transforms fear into something more productive.

Imi Lichtenfeld

#40. Duchamp had taken art to its logical conclusion.
Every act of perception is art.
So everything that perceives is an artist.

Chris F. Westbury

#41. A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution.

Jay Maisel

#42. What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

Marshall McLuhan

#43. The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.

Johan Huizinga

#44. The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [ ... ] be closed with a shout of recognition.

Timothy Findley

#45. For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's truth through the center of the individual. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's fallacies or falsehoods. It just happens to be one perception of what's happening.

Q-Tip

#46. Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception,

John Maeda

#47. Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#48. In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

Josef Albers

#49. Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance
of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor
cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp
personal "truths" still emerging into perception.
To grasp and to shape them.

Earle Birney

#50. There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern, to see in a new way.

Siri Hustvedt

#51. A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

Hans Hofmann

#52. There are portraits and still-lifes
And the first, because 'human'
Does not excel the second

Charles Tomlinson

#53. Promotion and perception are synonymous twins of art marketing.

Jack White

#54. It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Anais Nin

#55. Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.

Jeffrey Deitch

#56. Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

Leo Tolstoy

#57. Laying out grounds ... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting ... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections ... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature ...

William Wordsworth

#58. The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

James Baldwin

#59. I don't really know what people's perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with others. Create more pleasure, and object to despair. Really it's about that. A space where we can be less aggressed upon.

Elia Suleiman

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

Rudolf Arnheim

#61. Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.

Anne Fortier

#62. It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

Bill Watterson

#63. For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#64. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

Elliot W. Eisner

#65. A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.

Martin Filler

#66. Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think ... that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

Robert Hughes

#67. Art and morality are, with certain provisos ... one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Iris Murdoch