Quotes About Distortion

#1. I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle ... In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.

Henry Moore

#2. All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

Joshua Reynolds

#3. The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

Arthur C. Clarke

#4. I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

Eve Ensler

#5. What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality.

James Patterson

#6. When we say something, our subjective intention or situation is always involved. So there is no perfect word; some distortion is always present in a statement.

Shunryu Suzuki

#7. I really believe hatred is not a primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of distortion of fear.

Etgar Keret

#8. If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

Francis Bacon

#9. A person or group of people can suffer real damage, real distortion, if the people or society around them mirror back to them a confining or demeaning or contemptible picture of themselves.24

Melissa V. Harris-Perry

#10. But unlike people with psychotic conditions like schizophrenia, they are not going insane at all. They are, if anything, suddenly overly aware of reality and existence and of the ways in which their own experience is a distortion of a "normal" sense of a real self. Depersonalization,

Daphne Simeon

#11. Distortion upon distortion: ... the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

Laozi

#12. In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.

Michio Kaku

#13. The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.

Pat Swindall

#14. Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

Thomas Paine

#15. It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

Lewis Thomas

#16. Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

Cedric Price

#17. Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.

Cynthia Ozick

#18. For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

Noam Chomsky

#19. I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.

Peter Porter

#20. The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.

Dweezil Zappa

#21. The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its traces.

Sigmund Freud

#22. Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

Steve Martin

#23. Some of the published news was distorted, but distortion is inherent in partisan journalism, the same as it is in political rallies.

E.B. White

#24. Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#25. The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some kind of interest, whether economic or political or racial, or national or sexual.

Howard Zinn

#26. The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by distortion of the natural form. For, therein is nature reborn.

Paul Klee

#27.
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture?

David Bohm

#28. Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century.

Marcel Duchamp

#29. Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.

D. A. Carson

#30. I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

Yohji Yamamoto

#31. There is always some distortion in the re-telling of any story.

Marty Rubin

#32. Laughter
an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable.

Ambrose Bierce

#33. The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy.

Noam Chomsky

#34. The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

Robert Aris Willmott

#35. I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there's a whole magic there.

Jeff Beck

#36. I'm very concerned about the increasing distortion of research by the intrusion of the market. Universities are beginning to see science as a means of attracting funds.

Philip Kitcher

#37. Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or another but against the distortion of a great yearning, 'the effort towards community.'

Marilyn Ferguson

#38. The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

Flannery O'Connor

#39. It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

J Mascis

#40. What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature ... but life itself strikes him as commonplace, when in truth a blade of grass or a neuron in the brain is a greater miracle ...

Sydney J. Harris

#41. I always look at myself knowing that I will have a certain degree of cognitive distortion.

Sarah Silverman

#42. The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.

Jean Baudrillard

#43. I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and letting the experience get through you onto the notebook with the pen, through the arm, out of the body, onto the page, without distortion.

Sharon Olds

#44. We must categorize and simplify in order to comprehend. But the reduction of complexity entails a great danger, since the line between enlightening epitome and vulgarized distortion is so fine.

Stephen Jay Gould

#45. The distortion of the truth bothers me.

Michael Jackson

#46. The ego says, 'I shouldn't have to suffer,' and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.

Eckhart Tolle

#47. If you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.

Paulo Coelho

#48. I'm a teen distortion, survived abortion.

Marilyn Manson

#49. The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

Lao-Tzu

#50. This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.

Mark Rothko

#51. No sane creator, setting out from scratch to design a flat-fish, would have conceived on his drawing board the absurd distortion of the head needed to bring both eyes round to one side.

Richard Dawkins

#52. Our society in general devalues the 'she' - qualities that are associated with the feminine that are found in all of us. As a result there's this imbalance and this distortion and it's hindering our progress.

Emma Watson

#53. Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

Garth Stein

#54. It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life ... you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.

James Toback

#55. The more we allow God's "wine" (the Holy Spirit, see Eph 5:18) to purify our hearts through holy drunkenness, the more we experience a "real and deep victory" over the distortion of lust (see TOB 45:4).

Ascension Press

#56. The core tenant of what I teach is there are no facts inside the building. When we come up with a new idea, we tend to slide into our own reality distortion field to convince ourselves and others. And that's not healthy.

Steve Blank

#57. If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars.

Cynthia McKinney

#58. I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

Darin Strauss

#59. Veteran colleagues at Apple used to call his "reality distortion field." Sometimes it was the inadvertent misfiring of memory

Walter Isaacson

#60. I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the side hairdos are not metal no matter what distortion pedal they have for their guitars.

Chris Reifert

#61. The very nature of limiting something from an infinite to moments in time creates distortion; analog recording methods create all kinds of distortion, they're just not digital distortion.

Kevin Shields

#62. Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will always be political terrain particularly vulnerable to distortion and demagoguery.

Robert Dallek

#63. When we respond to attacks of doubt, distortion, and deceit with the truth of God's Word, the fiery dart is extinguished and the enemy takes another hit.

Beth Moore

#64. Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.

Richard Dawkins

#65. History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it preferred to be shocking.

Sean DeLauder

#66. Distortion is part of desire. We always change the things we want.

Siri Hustvedt

#67. When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

Walter Lippmann

#68. Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived. The erroneous thoughts of man result from imperfections in his discernment. The goal of Yoga Science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may mirror the Divine vision in the Universe.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#69. Any understanding of God that doesn't take into account God's silence is a half truth - in effect, a cruel distortion - and leaves us vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation by leaders who are quite willing to fill in the biblical blanks with what the Holy Spirit never tells us.

Eugene H. Peterson

#70. Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.

Leon Golub

#71. I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play very aggressively. I always have a distortion pedal in line, and I play less melodies and do more stuff against the guitars that create melodies.

Nikki Sixx

#72. My reflection followed me mercilessly in mirrors, car doors, shop windows. I lived in a world of circus mirrors, the grotesque distortion of my body looking back at me everywhere.

Bethany Pierce

#73. Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

Mahatma Gandhi

#74. Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality ... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection ... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.

Jean Tinguely

#75. To limit the ways our daughters can legitimately function as stewards/rulers further devalues the image of God in them and continues the imbalance and distortion of God's plan.

Lisa Graham McMinn

#76. In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.

Abraham Maslow

#77. I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.

Jane Siberry

#78. What moves the planets and stars is the distortion of space and time. Of

Bill Bryson

#79. Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

Anthony De Mello

#80. Science fiction doesn't try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present ... We sit around and look at what we see around us and we say how can the world be different

Samuel R. Delany

#81. It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

Bell Hooks

#82. Every science comes with its own pseudo-science, a bizarre distortion that comes from a certain kind of mind.

Stanislaw Lem

#83. The universe is not a rigid and immutable edifice where independent matter is housed in independent space and time; it is on the contrary an amorphous continuum, without any fixed architecture, plastic and variable, constantly subject to change and distortion.

Lincoln Barnett

#84. power is creation, and that when power takes the form of coercion and violence, that is actually a diminishment and distortion of what it was meant to be.

Andy Crouch

#85. With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race, gender against gender, ethnic group against ethnic group, and straight against gay.

Edward Kennedy

#86. It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

Olivier Martinez

#87. The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to distortion of consciousness and conscience, and hence our actions.

Michael O'Brien

#88. I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation.

Jean Thompson

#89. New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion ... Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#90. The goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may hear the infallible counsel of the Inner Voice.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#91. Seeing any war through the distortion of comedy is healthy. There is just too much absurdity and irony at play in a combat zone not to pay attention to it. At least that's how it struck me; others may have had an entirely different war experience.

Dave Abrams

#92. While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

Alan Greenspan

#93. The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

Annie Jacobsen

#94. To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

Willard Gaylin

#95. When our mind is calm, it reflects reality accurately, without distortion. Breathing, sitting, and walking with mindfulness calms disturbing mental formations such as anger, fear, and despair, allowing us to see reality more clearly.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#96. The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

Henri Matisse

#97. It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience, Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achieve.

David Ayer

#98. The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

Edward Thorndike

#99. I've been so lucky to have done two spacewalks. If you looked at your wristwatch, I was outside about 15 hours, which is about 10 times around the world. And, you know, there's a whole time dilation, distortion thing.

Chris Hadfield

#100. Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail. But it's been really hard to follow through on that second promise because of atmospheric distortion.

Andrea M. Ghez