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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Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call “reality”. However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions?
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If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
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Selling - at its core - is not a business transaction. It is first and foremost the forging of a human connection.
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I had an unbelievable experience on '24'. We shot 198 episodes, and I was as excited about shooting the 198th as I was the first.
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Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".
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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.
