"One is never satisfied with the portrait..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
More by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
More on Perception
“What? You don't think he's cute?" "I didn't really notice." "How can you not notice when a guy is cute?" Melody stared at her in disbelief.”
“In the dark, all cats are grey.”
“If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.”
More on Reality
“If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.”
“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
“Your eyes wider than distance, this life is sweeter than fiction.”