When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I’m encouraging myself to live in the present moment.
The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience
And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.
Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.
I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.
It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated, and at the rapid succession of revolutions by which they were kept in a state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy. . . great improvement. . . were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients.
For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain
Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.
It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
Our ideas are transformed sensations.
Reciprocity of sensation is not possible because to share is to be robbed.
Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.
European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films
Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.
I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.