BEAUTIFUL PERCEPTIONS - IDEAS & IMAGES NOW

“Light is something that can really change your perception of space.”

-- Alexandre de Betak

“A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.”

-- Abbas Kiarostami

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

--  Voltaire

“In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.”

-- Emile Zola

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”

-- Aldous Huxley

“My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.”

-- E.M. Forster, “A Room with a View.”

“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.”

-- Ansel Adams

“Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.”

-- Saadi

“A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?”

-- Ernst Haas

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

-- Edgar Allan Poe

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Tom Davidson. “Heavenly Bow of Stars.”
2. Image: by Paula Soler-Moya. “Aten Reign, James Turrell.”
3. Image: by Andréa Portilla. “Illusion.”
4. Image: Courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. “NASA Unveils Celestial Fireworks as Official Image for Hubble 25th Anniversary.”
5. Image: by Michael Davis-Burchat. “From a gilded age in Shanghai.”
6. Image: by Thanasis Papathanasiou. “Starry Gulf Gate.”
7. Image: Courtesy of Ansel Adams Gallery. Ansel Adams.
8. Image: by Vincent Brassinne. “Hanging hearts?”
9. Image: by Patrick McDonald. “Fort, South of Lisbon.”
10. Image: by liz west. “Grassy sky.”
11. Image: by David Strom. “Impressions.”
12. Image: by Allegra Ricci. “Dream.”
13. Image: by BN App - Download now!
14. Image: by fidber. “Impressions…”