#perceptive

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone "mainstream." ↗

— Cesar Romero

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Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

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