Chrysippus Quotes

Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.

How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

We live on the leash of our senses.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

We think we receive all that we perceive, but in fact, we actually give the sky its colour.

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

The price of seeing is silence.

I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.

Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.

But surely, speaking carefully, we do not sense 'red' and 'blue' any more than 'resemblance' (or 'qualities' any more than 'relations'): we sense something of which we might say, if we wished to talk about it, that 'this is red.'

If I use the word consciousness, in our lab, in our institute, what we mean is the special quality of mind, the special features that exist in the mind, that permit us to know, for example, that we, ourselves, exist, and that things exist around us.

I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view.

What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the form of knowing,) is the ideology from which it is born, in which it bathes, from which it detaches itself as art, and which it alludes.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.

Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.

I regard any behavior we indulge in as a game. The soul is beyond not only three-dimensional space but beyond the illusion of linear time. Any method we use to move through three- or four- dimensional space is a game. It doesn't matter how serious we take it, or how serious its consequences are.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.

Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.