“A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world.” — Hans Hofmann

Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that’s what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.

— Shakira

If we extend our senses, then, consequently, we will extend our knowledge. It’s really very basic.

— Neil Harbisson

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

— Hannah Arendt

Since my woman’s world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing – and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.

— Sylvia Plath

When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

— Barbara Sher

Love is the poetry of the senses.

— Honore de Balzac

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

— Arthur Erickson

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

— Carson McCullers

As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind’s nature is to remain pure like ether.

—Ramana Maharshi

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

— Vera Farmiga

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.’

— Edgar Allan Poe

 

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