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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I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.
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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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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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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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We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
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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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It is the function of the intellect to discriminate between the true and the false-a distinction which is applicable to all objects of intellectual perception.
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The nasty thing about the availability bias is that it insidiously distorts our view of the world by distorting our perception of past events and our environment.
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Hannity-'You seem to be angry with religion, angry with god. Am I wrong in my perception?' Hitchens-'Not with god, obviously,that would be absurd.'
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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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In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.
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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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She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.
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Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.
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When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water.
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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.
