The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation,… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
O, if my husband could only love me even a little and not seem to be perfectly indifferent to any sensation of… — Emmeline B. Wells Copy Share Image
Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern. — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Ideas are merely sensations imprinted deep inside us...Like attracts like...There is great wisdom in the subconscious mind. If you begin to work… — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar… — Hans Richter Copy Share Image
The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
It started back in '79, My whole darn future was on the line. I created a brand new sensation Through my mind… — Sylvia Robinson Copy Share Image
While doing the postures, your mind should be in half-consciousn ess, which does not mean sleep. It means silence, emptiness, space, which… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in.… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
“Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Association is the delight of the heart, not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds,… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
The love of God uplifts and enlarges us. I can never think of myself anymore as exclusively in this body; I feel… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image