#sensation

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#full #get #night #sea #sensation

A better-constituted boy would certainly have profited under my intelligent tutors, with their scientific apparatus; and would, doubtless, have found the phenomena of electricity and magnetism as fascinating as I was, every Thursday, assured they were. As it was, I could have paired off, for ignorance of whatever was taught me, with the worst Latin scholar that was ever turned out of a classical academy. I read Plutarch, and Shakespeare, and Don Quixote by the sly, and supplied myself in that way with wandering thoughts, while my tutor was assuring me that "an improved man, as distinguished from an ignorant one, was a man who knew the reason why water ran downhill." I had no desire to be this improved man; I was glad of the running water; I could watch it and listen to it gurgling among the pebbles and bathing the bright green water-plants, by the hour together. I did not want to know why it ran; I had perfect confidence that there were good reasons for what was so very beautiful. ("The Lifted Veil") ↗

— Mary Ann Evans

#romanticism #science #sensation #beauty

Just like science, there must be other kinds of sensations which haven't yet been felt by the human heart at all. ↗

— Toba Beta

#heart #life #out-there #sensation #unknown

Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#conviction #indescribable #love #love is #perhaps

I was an overnight sensation. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#overnight #sensation

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations. ↗

— Henry Reed

#chemical #chemical reactions #hearing #listening #only

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#experience #i #perceptual #released #sensation

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist. ↗

— Alfred Sisley

#beholder #craft #highest #his #loveliness

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. ↗

— Levi Strauss

#been #composer #delicious #experience #falling

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#color #explain #object #perception #position