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“To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about history that are not accessible through any other medium.”

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Book:Reading Music: Selected Essays

Source: Reading Music: Selected Essays

“[My work] is using light as a material to influence or affect the medium of perception. I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.”

Way Want Feels Mean Use Light Wonderful Magic Influence Materials Drink Perception Skins Mediums Vitamins Elixir Vitamin D

Author:James Turrell

“A work can do many things at once, and it doesn't have to be just about the world, it could also be about photography, it could be about perception, it could be an exploration of the medium. It could be a document, it could be a visual poetry, and it could be a formal exploration all at the same time.”

World Can Do Perception Photography Mediums Visuals Exploration Documents Formal

Author:Stephen Shore

“It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.”

Art Quality Expression Perception Determine Mediums Significance

Book:The Calvin & Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

Source: The Calvin & Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.”

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Book:Singular images

Source: Singular images

“The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very existence ... The Photograph then becomes a bizarre (i)medium(i), a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time: a temporal hallucination, so to speak, a modest (o)shared(i) hallucination (on the one hand 'it is not there,' on the other 'but it has indeed been'): a mad image, chafed by reality.”

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Author:Roland Barthes

“With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the perception happen - then you become a mirror. With the ego you will always interpret, you cannot know the truth. With the ego you will always be there interpreting in subtle ways, and your interpretation is not the truth. You are the medium of all falsification. Through you everything becomes false. When you are not there, the true reflects.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium. Friends was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a masters degree in comedy.”

“During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well”

Humans Wells Long Humanity Existence Periods Circumstances Perception Historical Determined Mediums Organized Accomplished Sense Perception

Book:Illuminations

Source: Illuminations