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And I twisted it wrong just to make it right
Had to leave myself behind
Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.
Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.
Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.
The moved and the shaken.
Everything's weird if you stare at it.
Things look one way and then they look another way.
Magic happens in the rewrite!
What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.
Like the kaleidoscope in the nursery that had so delighted her when she first came to Blackhurst, one twist and the same pieces were rearranged to create a vastly different picture.
Looked at again and again half consciously by a mind thinking of something else, any object mixes itself so profoundly with the stuff of thought that it loses its actual form and recomposes itself a little differently in an ideal shape which haunts the brain when we least expect it.
Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.
We are in here not to correct the deformation but to accustom ourselves to it:
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
How could she have imagined that it would be possible to live, to move, in the unnatural field of Virek's wealth without suffering distortion? Virek had taken her up, in all her misery, and had rotated her through the monstrous, invisible stresses of his money, and she had been changed.
Like snow globes, you shake them up, and for a moment everything is upside down and glitter everywhere and it's just like magic - but then it all settles and goes back to where it's supposed to be.
She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.
The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.
Some things are clearer from a distance.
Later: I'm seeing everything in pieces and fractions, like a series of photographs shuffled randomly together.
For the Eye altering alters all;
The Senses roll themselves in fear
And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.
It's a hard job to get the camera to see it like you see it. Sometimes you have it just the way you want it, and then you look in the camera and you don't have the balance. The main thing is to get the camera to see it the way you see it.
What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature.
Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.
I could never explain how the image and the reality merge, and how they somehow extend and beautify each other.
Things are not as they appear.
His modesty amounts to deformity.
Image is sorcery.
Proper deformity shows not in the fiend
So horrid as in woman.
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.
Beauty alters the grain of reality.
Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!
It's odd the way that things tend to stop looking like themselves when you take their motion away.
A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.
As deformed as a grotesque potato,
Turn and face the strange changes.
A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.
Too much clarity darkens.
Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
We must categorize and simplify in order to comprehend. But the reduction of complexity entails a great danger, since the line between enlightening epitome and vulgarized distortion is so fine.
Everything's uglier close up
The mirror ever lies.
If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.
Simplicate and add more lightness.
So I was, like most artists, deformed by my art.
No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes ...
Shift your awareness.
A small shift in perspective and everything falls into place
One way everything looks all right, the other way, it looks all wrong.
My perspective will create my perception
What you see is what you see-- Frank Stella
An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.
Symmetry is what we see at a glance.
Hope, objects in mirror than they appear.
It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.
To see things in surprising ways, you have to extend yourself a bit.
Everything looks uglier close up.
Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.
The whole thing confused
Everything's uglier up close.
Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.
This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That's why everything is exactly the wrong way around.
Nowhere is our vision more distorted than when we turn it on ourselves.
Trying to straighten the question mark!
If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.
All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.
Life is warped. I'm just in sync.
When we look at things differently, things look different.
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.
Transformed people transform cities.
Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.
The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
When the thing observed ... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances.
Things fall apart;
the center cannot hold...
You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.
Hope, objects in mirror are closer than they appear.
Grips slipped. Hers had from every surface. She's shaped nothing after all, only been crushed and reshaped. No wonder she felt for the brownstones, the cripples, now filling chaotically with no regard for her plan.
...reflection can transform something familiar.
The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered the form which you had lost. Therefore he was deformed when he hung on the cross. But his deformity is our comeliness. In this life, therefore, let us hold fast to the deformed Christ.
Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.
There are some things that do not fare well in high definition.
Scatter her enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks.
Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.
When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted.
All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain.
There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
Once upon a time, there lived a troll that was so naughty and so evil that he decided to make a mirror that would twist the image of anything and anyone reflected in it.
Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.
Animation is manipulating the difference.
If I have viewed them from a certain angle, it is because, seen from there, that is how they looked
which may be due to prismatic distortion, but which is therefore what they also are, though unaware of being it.
Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
I was born with lots of deformities.