Neil Armstrong Quotes

Watching something on the TV or Internet is not nearly as incredible as it is when you see it in person.

I do not think direct experience is always necessary to act, but I believe that sometimes you have to have had the real experience to act certain roles. One of those was losing your family member. I was not being able to imagine how sad that could be.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

My first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It's much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.

An artists job is to see. And to go out in the world and see it firsthand, just as it is; to report with line and words what is seen. To be in the world, not just study about the world, that is the artists task

I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

DVDs have their place, but the cinema is a tangible, emotional experience that I would hate my children not to have.

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.

We can see every square metre of the planet on Google Earth. But there is no substitute for that sensory experience of going out into the world and discovering things for yourself.

Are we blasphemous in saying that 2-D is largely a thing of the past, and computer-generated animation is the present and future? It's all about creating a better experience for the viewer - and that includes 3-D.

Food is not just eating energy. It's an experience.

All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?