Perception

“Once a memory has been implanted through suggestion, it can seem very, very real to the person.”

“I’m like a sponge, so whatever I hear, I’m soaking it up and then I’m trying to figure it out for myself.”

“Do the dots shine as brightly as the stars? When I close my eyes, I see the rivers and mountains of my country more clearly than the rainbows.”

“As a painter, I conceive that this must have been the great secret of the perfection to which the Greek and Roman sculptors brought their works.”

“As a leader, you got to be optimistic, you can’t be a pessimist.”

““A seleção brasileira me parece muito boa no papel até agora. Porém, na prática tudo muda.””

“Everyone saw me as a joke, and no one thought I could do it.”

“We no longer believe in the eye: we are subordinating the eye to the sense of touch.”

“The link between the two is that you have to be very careful with the text, and that you can respond to a text in various ways.”

“What you achieve in life, is a function of your admirations.”

“This is the marvellous thing about theatre. The audience continually relates it to their own lives.”

“This little picture gave me the first glimmerings of atmosphere.”

“There are two worlds; the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imaginations.”

“Pakistan is no place for Hindus to live in and that their future is darkened by the ominous shadow of conversion or liquidation.”

“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete.”

“I invent everything in my painting. And I stylize whatever it was that I saw or felt.”

“Our tears aren’t being seen because they’re not blue.”

“The modern city with its multistory buildings ... have redirected ... the normal psychology of visual perception. It would seem that only the camera is capable of reflecting contemporary life.”

“Es puntualmente tanta verdad, que la vemos con nuestros ojos los que vivimos en el Pirú; harto más manifiesta por la experiencia, de lo que nos pudiera ser por cualquier razón y demostración filosófica.”

“What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things.”