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“The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout of the world around us. Space, as such, empty space, is not visible, but surfaces are.”

World Heart Problem Space Objects Empty Constant Depth Surface Visible Empty Space Layout

Author:James J. Gibson

“There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity.”

Body Names Given Process My Own Consciousness Events Objects Skins Technique Defined Visible Divinity Internals Organs Introducing Sacraments Introduction Tangible Altered Uneasy Borderline

Author:Timothy Leary

“It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.”

Eye Faces Failing Objects Creatures Worship Originals Visible Unseen Pursued

Author:Ibn Arabi

“Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!”

Evil Known Objects Shadow Perceive Visible Folly Flats Abolish

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.”

Art Real Language Objects Painting Realms Abstract Visible Concrete Representation

Author:Gustave Courbet

“For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to enjoy it because enjoying art is something they expect of themselves as civilized persons, but they're unsure how to do so. They aren't even sure which of the visible objects are art and which are furniture, clothes, hors d'oeuvres, or construction rubble, and whether a pile of dead and decomposing rats is deliberate art or just another pile of decomposing rats.”

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

“Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come.”

Ifs World Has Beens Dream Light Able Vision Objects Higher Glory Endure Visible Waking Remarks

Author:Novalis

“The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?”

Ifs Ends Eye Truth Film Understanding Darkness Objects Ignorance Fit Truth Is Essence Visible Over It Brightness Gazing Plainness

Book:The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes

Source: The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes

“Minimize the user's memory load by making objects, actions, and options visible. The user should not have to remember information from one part of the dialogue to another. Instructions for use of the system should be visible or easily retrievable whenever appropriate.”

Should Use Action Remember Memories Information Objects Dialogue Visible Appropriate Instruction Users Load

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.”

World Giving Art Soul Jobs Poetry Force Position Objects Poet Habit Dues Strikes Invisible Visible Tragic Unusual Glue

Author:Jean Cocteau

“I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards.”

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.”

Doe Light Virtue Objects Sight Fortune Vices Visible

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.”

Pain Felt Loss Pleasure Objects Shapes Notion Size Harm Colour Visible

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)

“My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is an endless source of fascination to me in its ritualistic objects and behavior.”

Reality Life Is Objects Emotional Source Behavior Normal Ordinary Endless Invisible Familiar Manifestation Visible Fascination Unfamiliar Abnormal Ordinary Life

Author:Sandy Skoglund