Painting Quote by Russell Hoban

I use these senses - touch, sight, feel and smell - as triggers that invite readers or propel them into the scene. The trick…

— David Morrell

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

— Samuel Alexander

The images are visual, auditory, olfactory, kinesthetic. They aren't laid down on the same tracks as thought. And sometimes, when they return to you,…

— Martha Manning

That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.

— Dana Schutz

I'm interested in that way we perceive things, and that was part of what I was getting into in painting - the idea of…

— Kurt Wagner

I'm not different from others , I just absorb sensations the way a paintbrush grasps each color it touches, the shift of a season,…

— Senoraroy

The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge…

— Richard Gregory

As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with…

— Albert Einstein

Like, the smells and the sights and the sounds. As an artist, you want to sort of be able to engage that and get…

— Kehinde Wiley

At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the…

— Edmund Husserl

In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells…

— Sonia Sotomayor