Sensations Quotes

New cities arouse too many sensations in me. They give me too many impressions to experience at the same time. They all crowd in on me. Being in a new city overwhelms me, unsettles me.

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.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I`m conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

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.

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

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

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

In fact, sensations of pleasure and pain, however faint they may be, really constitute an essential part of the content of all so-called emotions.

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

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

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.

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.

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

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

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

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.