#sensations

The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#analysis #between #ideas #investigation #mediator

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#approaching #been #big #big city #city

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#complexes #elements #make #make up #produce

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#atmospheric #convey #i #long-term #might

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." [As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study] ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#death #meteors #natural-phenomena #news #sensations

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#nature #object #painting #realizing #sensations

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#nature #paint #realize #sensations #subject

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#compassion #fear #grief #hand #others

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

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