#perceive

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#determine #help #how #key #metaphors

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically. ↗

— Josef Albers

#artistic #artistic expression #color #expression #means

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. ↗

— Scott Adams

#choose #free #free will #greatest #greatest pleasure

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#better #christianity #christians #crusades #east

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#attitude #becomes #contracted #everyone #eye

I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will. ↗

— Taylor Dane

#glam #i #more #perceived #sure

We were perceived as a post-grunge band. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#perceived #were

I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#august #back #border #del #disaster

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries. ↗

— David Bowie

#artifice #artist #believe #changing #contemporaries

Well, it all depends on how you, you know, perceive the religion angle. I always say to each their own and I'd much rather have a guy that's going to be preaching religion as oppose a guy who's going to be shooting himself in the leg. ↗

— Boomer Esiason

#angle #depends #each #going #guy