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In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests. -- Chuck Close
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy. -- JR
Art is a tool by which society extends its perception. -- Arne Glimcher
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience. -- Abbas Kiarostami
Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities. -- Fred Tomaselli
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is equally conceivable that the exchange would be useful for the beholders of art, for people who enjoy art, for historians, and for the artists themselves. -- Eric Kandel
In addition to giving comfort and joy, art also has the miraculous ability to let us live in other men's skins, to test our perceptions and beliefs against theirs, and perhaps to be changed as a result. It does this by portraying the world creatively, heightening our perception and enriching our understanding of things as they are. -- Terry Teachout
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness. -- George Edward Woodberry
People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork. -- Art Alexakis
Organized perception is what art is all about. -- Roy Lichtenstein
Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception, -- John Maeda
Promotion and perception are synonymous twins of art marketing. -- Jack White
Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception. -- Jeremy Begbie
What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception. -- Marshall McLuhan
It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art. -- Bill Watterson
The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art. -- Marilynne Robinson
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
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
It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
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
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

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