Pina Bausch Quotes

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.

We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it.

The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it.

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.

The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

It's hard keeping everything the same when the same things look and feel so different

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

Value is a perception not a calculation. Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.

I think everybody reacts to entertainment with a different kind of visceral way, probably mostly based on their own personal experiences.

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head?

Beauty is undefinable in language. It's something that you see when you see it, or you feel when you feel it, or you hear when you hear it. It usually encompasses all five of the senses. It can't exist without it being a somehow sensorial experience. But, I don't think it's quantifiable. Nothing is really quantifiable. Nothing is certain in love and friendship. We all try to understand these things.

Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.

What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable.

Because when every day is the End of Days, after a while they feel pretty much like every other day, even though you know that's crazy. And nothing is the same.

The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event ... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.

One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too.