Sensations Quotes · Page 5

Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.

— Tara Brach

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

— Anais Nin

“When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations.”

— Mary Shelley

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

— Yves Klein

Movement is the unifying bond between the mind and the body, and sensations are the substance of that bond.

— Deane Juhan

Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

— Guy Debord

“O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts. -John Keats”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

— J. E. H. MacDonald

it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to…

— Winston Churchill

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

— Epicurus

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much…

— Claude Monet

I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more…

— Jeff Koons

Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation…

— William Pinnock

It's the most natural progression for me to becoming a singing sensation next. And so many people have offered to be on…

— Paul Reubens

How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.

— Ted Nelson

Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savour each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in.

— Charles Hart

As soon as people realize that the majority of people in this country take drugs then the better off we'll all be.…

— Noel Gallagher

There's no worse feeling than being in front of a guy with six-pack abs, muscles popping out of his shoulders, veins popping…

— Jon Jones

Actually, screenplays were much more detailed than what I did in the book In the book I had to invent a style…

— Paul Auster

Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that…

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I felt certain uneasiness, a strange sensation, which had comic to a head. Every evening I went to Yahya to report that…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of…

— Henri Matisse

[Albert Camus] started thinking through sensation. He could never think with artefacts or with cultural models because there were none. So it's…

— Catherine Camus

Do not several sorts of Rays make Vibrations of several bignesses, which according to their bigness excite Sensations of several Colours, much…

— Isaac Newton

“... he had always wondered why the sensations one felt in dreamas were so much more intense than anything one could experience…

— Ayn Rand

“Is it really possible that the finest sensations in life are simple: the delicate brush of Lou’s hair across my chest, for…

— William H. Gass

What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the…

— Douglas Coupland

“I feel my hand. I am these two beasts struggling at the end of my arms. My hand scratches one of its…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a…

— William Whewell

Do we need to make a special effort to enjoy the beauty of the blue sky? Do we have to practice to…

— Nhat Hanh

It is therefore, the interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated, physically and mentally, that society may…

— Robert Owen

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

— Henri Matisse

I scavenged for sensation, sought myself in the rewards of being out there, across the Border.

— Mark Twight

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

— Aristotle

Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.

— Coco Chanel

Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.

— Tara Brach

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

— Tom Stoppard

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

— Robert E. Howard

Vogue is not a practical magazine, it provides sensations, feeling, moods, you like the photos.

— Franca Sozzani