Visual Perception Quotes:

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

- Rudolf Arnheim

source: Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.5, Univ of California Press

topic: Thinking, Intuition, Instinct, Hunches, Visual Perception

The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.

- Sol LeWitt

topic: Simple, Ideas, Perception, Visual Perception

Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them to life. Art contains the allied ideas of making and begetting, of being master of one's craft and able to create. Without these properties no art exists and no photographic art can come into being

- Helmut Gernsheim

topic: Art, Men, Ideas, Visual Perception

We never really perceive what color is physically!

- Josef Albers

topic: Color, Perceive, Visual Perception

I use visual perception as a way of bringing people into my space.

- Richard Artschwager

topic: Space, People, Perception, My Space, Visual Perception

Writing is the only way I know how to pray.

- Helena Maria Viramontes

topic: Writing, Way, Praying, Mother Night, Uncaring

Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.

- David Galenson

topic: Artist, Goal, Innovation, Visual Perception

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

- Chuck Close

topic: Photography, Art, Perception, Visual Perception

Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not only their apparent 'objectivity' that grants photographs their high status in this regard, but our belief that in them, fugitive sensation has been laid to rest.

- Max Kozloff

topic: Memories, Objectivity, Perception, Visual Perception

The use of neuroscientific data to help resolve phenomenological questions is proving a common theme in much contemporary thinking about the mind. How rich are the contents of visual perception? Does vision only tell us about shapes and colours, or does it also represent higher categories like lemon or umbrella?

- David Papineau

topic: Thinking, Data, Mind, Visual Perception

Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know how to invite this experience is by removing the other things (i.e., subject matter) for you to think about.

- Uta Barth

topic: Thinking, Perception, Matter, Visual Perception