“To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation.” FeelsImportantEndsMightPastBitsEmotionPerceptionIdealsUltimateIntelligentBeing ThereContributingOffspringElationIdeal Society Book:Siege of Darkness: The Legend of Drizzt Source: Siege of Darkness: The Legend of Drizzt
“The music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. And I’m not willing to contribute my life’s work to an experiment that I don’t feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music. And I just don’t agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free.” FeelsShouldArtistValuesBitsWillingIndustryPerceptionAgreeCreatorExperimentsProducersMusic IndustryPerpetuatingSpotify Author:Taylor Swift
“Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are thing-ing. Thought does not report things, it distorts reality to create things, and as Bergson noted, "In so doing it allows what is the very essence of the real to escape." Thus to the extent we actually imagine a world of discrete and separate things, conceptions have become perceptions, and we have in this manner populated our universe with nothing but ghosts.” ThinkingWorldDoeRealRealityUniverseBitsImaginePerceptionEssenceGhostReportsConceptionDiscrete Author:D.T. Suzuki
“For me, literature is the daughter of music: a bit heavy and more level headed than its mother. Literature submits to the same principles of successive perception, which allows it to build progressively.” MotherLiteratureBitsLevelsPrinciplesPerceptionDaughterHeavySubmitLevel Headed Author:Dumitru Tepeneag
“I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be a bit confusing and scattering. But as the artist, as the man behind the velvet rope who controls the smoke and the mirrors and the way that things move in the painted space, what I want to do is to try my best to be a good witness.” ThinkingMenWayWantTryingMovingArtistBitsSpaceBehindsHe ManPaintingPerceptionMirrorsWitnessSmokeHallsConfusingRopeVelvetJuggling Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his love of the divine feminine onto the Virgin Mary. She wanted him to stop the cycle of being disappointed by the ultimate humanity of women. She was like, "You don't want me, you want the Virgin Mary." It's kind of a mystical concept! She also changed Freud's opinion, a little bit too late, about the female psyche, which he had so wrong. If it had been better publicized, it would have changed Western society's perception of the female psyche, too.” IfsWantKindLittlesWantedHumanityBitsChurchOpinionChangedDivineLike YouProjectsLatePerceptionLittle BitConceptsFemaleDirectUltimateWesternToo LateCyclesOrthodoxFeminineDisappointedWant MeMaryMentorMysticalVirginsHis LoveVirgin MaryDivine FeminineWestern SocietyBeing DisappointedOrthodox Church Author:Laura Marling
“Only in the 20th century, artists started taking the study of perception in a more humane way. They were thinking about the eye as being an instrument, the whole body as being a visual instrument. That sort of gave way a little bit with Cartesian - the "Cogito ergo sum" argument. It's not, "I think therefore I exist." It's, "I feel therefore I think therefore I exist."” ThinkingWayFeelsLittlesWholeBodyEyeArtistBitsStudyCenturyPerceptionLittle BitArgumentInstrumentsVisuals20th CenturyHumaneHumane Way Author:Vik Muniz
“I'm grateful when anybody can start to have his or her limited perception of the genre open up a little bit. There's a lot of great music in the country genre that doesn't get heard because people say, 'Well, I don't like country.'” PeopleWellsLittlesCountryBitsHeardPerceptionLittle BitGratefulGenreGreat Music Author:Keith Urban
“Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed” HandsFormArtistBitsPerceptionPhotographPortraits Book:Stumbling on Happiness Source: Stumbling on Happiness
“I kinda like messing with perception a little bit. Kind of what drugs do sometimes, and drinking. I mean, you know, you mess with your mind a little bit to see life from different angles. Within reason, if you can handle it.” IfsKnowsMindKindMeanLittlesDifferentSometimesReasonBitsDrugPerceptionLittle BitDrinkingHandleMessAngleDifferent Angles Author:Julian Casablancas
“We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations.” BitsMemoriesSpacePiecesDesignCreationPerceptionDeterminedInternalsAnticipationOur MemoriesActualityBits And PiecesCollages Author:Willard Gaylin