Salman Rushdie Quotes About Perception

Quotes about: Perception

• Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

  Salman Rushdie

  Perception, Lenses, Phrases

  "Imaginary Homelands". Book by Salman Rushdie, 1992.

• Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.

  Salman Rushdie

  Hurt, Thinking, People

• It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do we think of Ezra Pound - clearly a great poet and clearly kind of an asshole? You can say the same thing about Louis-Ferdinand Céline, who clearly was a Nazi sympathizer, and yet one of the great writers of the 20th century. It is tough, but there are enough examples around where we have to somehow find a way of separating the work from the artist and seeing what there is to see in the work, while also condemning the thoughts we see in the man.

  Salman Rushdie

  Artist, Men, Thinking

  Source: pen.org

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