Josef Albers Quotes
Every perception of colour is an illusion.. ..we do not see colours as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.
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Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.
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I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.
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I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked.
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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.
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.
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When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren't important. And it's true. Women were seen historically as far inferior to men.
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Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.
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There is a perception that the media is very liberal, very biased, produces fake news.
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It worries me because it alters perception. TV, and the culture it anchors, and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided.
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It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.
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Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.
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'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.
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An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.
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Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.
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The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.
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Every perception of colour is an illusion.. ..we do not see colours as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.
