Art Quote by Anais Nin

“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with, we cease to see.”

— Anaïs Nin

A lot of individuals I've met that I've done a song or two with. But to be honest I'm not incredibly familiar with the…

— Immortal Technique

Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the…

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

“The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”

— Anaïs Nin

[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that…

— Anais Nin

Magicians start by looking for blind spots, edges, vulnerabilities and limits of people's perception, so they can influence what people do without them even…

— Tristan Harris

If people in Indonesia look 'different', they are afraid. Racist insults fly if someone does not look like part of the majority. Indonesia is…

— Andre Vltchek

“No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the…

— Kamand Kojouri

The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely,…

— J. Willard Gibbs

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions…

— Dorothea Lange

We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing…

— David Eagleman

When you hang the 'bipartisan' tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there's a broad agreement that that's…

— Mitch McConnell