Visual Perception Quotes

• All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Thinking, Perception, Intuition

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.

  Sol LeWitt

  Simple, Ideas, Perception

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• Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them to life. Art contains the allied ideas of making and begetting, of being master of one's craft and able to create. Without these properties no art exists and no photographic art can come into being

  Helmut Gernsheim

  Art, Men, Ideas

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• We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

  Josef Albers

  Motivational, Art, Color

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• I use visual perception as a way of bringing people into my space.

  Richard Artschwager

  Space, People, Perception

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• Writing is the only way I know how to pray.

  Helena Maria Viramontes

  Writing, Way, Praying

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• Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.

  David Galenson

  Artist, Goal, Innovation

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• In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Perception

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• Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not only their apparent 'objectivity' that grants photographs their high status in this regard, but our belief that in them, fugitive sensation has been laid to rest.

  Max Kozloff

  Memories, Objectivity, Perception

  Max Kozloff (1979). “Photography & Fascination: Essays”

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• The use of neuroscientific data to help resolve phenomenological questions is proving a common theme in much contemporary thinking about the mind. How rich are the contents of visual perception? Does vision only tell us about shapes and colours, or does it also represent higher categories like lemon or umbrella?

  David Papineau

  Thinking, Data, Mind

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 20.

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• Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know how to invite this experience is by removing the other things (i.e., subject matter) for you to think about.

  Uta Barth

  Thinking, Perception, Matter

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