#sensations

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. ↗

— Freya Stark

#awaken #quite #sensations #strange #town

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#god #sensations #soul #spiritual #time

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere. ↗

— Philip Guston

#anywhere #come #desire #directly #even

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world. ↗

— Ruth Hubbard

#cannot #categorize #evolve #our #place

Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it. ↗

— Francis Wright

#actions #belief #consequences #deduce #first

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films. ↗

— Charlotte Rampling

#american #american films #characters #depth #directors

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

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#form #i #impressive #me #most