Simon Van Booy Quotes

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.

When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are.

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable I.

I know that people have different ways to see me but I'm used to it.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

We all have a blind spot and it's shaped exactly like us.

I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier.

Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.

Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.