Visual Perception Quotes

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

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  Richard Artschwager

  Space   People   Perception  

  3954

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

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  Josef Albers

  Motivational   Art   Color  

  5038

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

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  Rudolf Arnheim

  Thinking   Perception   Intuition  

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

  525

• 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?

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  David Papineau

  Thinking   Data   Mind  

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

  2342

• 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

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  Helmut Gernsheim

  Art   Men   Ideas  

  1834

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

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  Sol LeWitt

  Simple   Ideas   Perception  

  1321

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

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  Helena Maria Viramontes

  Writing   Way   Praying  

  2047

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

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  Chuck Close

  Photography   Art   Perception  

  3695

• 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.

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  David Galenson

  Artist   Goal   Innovation  

  2760

• 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.

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  Max Kozloff

  Memories   Objectivity   Perception  

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

  2664

• 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.

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  Uta Barth

  Thinking   Perception   Matter  

  4691