Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
Miguel de Unamuno

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
Angela Carter

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.
Ernst Mach

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.
Charlotte Rampling

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Paul Cezanne

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
Evelyn Underhill

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
Maimonides

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
Camille Pissarro

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
Philip Guston

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
Edward Hopper

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
Jack Henry Abbott

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
Karel Capek

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.
Remy de Gourmont

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Raymond Chandler

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
Ernst Mach

Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
Francis Wright

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Paul Cezanne

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.
James J. Gibson

The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.
Wilhelm Wundt