Quotes About Viewpoint

A small lens gives you a very specific look. You don't have a shallow depth of field.

Lavatorial humour is just not my cup of tea. But, having said that, I'm really of the mind that comedy is so subjective and whatever makes you laugh makes you laugh. If it doesn't make you laugh, don't watch it.

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.

I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than any other: in other words his 'general relativity', and its claim that the answer to the question 'What is real?" begins with the question 'Where are you standing?

Truth, in other words, was a matter of perspective.

every coin has three sides

It's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.

The simple truth is that the truth does not exist, it all depends on a persons point of view.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

He said maybe irony is the lens through which we see the picture in reverse

When I see it, this is what I see.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

The epitome of empathy is said to be the capacity to look at the world through another's eyes. Though our glance on the planet is largely distorted by our crooked perspectives, we may nevertheless, with luck or agility, accede to a privileged glimpse of the view from another's shoes - and in the process claim to have been able, for a moment at least, to surmount our relativity.

In a world where time is a sense, like sight or like taste, a sequence of episodes may be quick or may be slow, dim or intense, salty or sweet, causal or without cause, orderly or random, depending on the prior history of the viewer.

Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

When you change perspective, everything changes.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

Objectivity? I always have an objective.

Diels told the reporters, "The value of the SA and the SS, seen from my viewpoint of inspector-general responsible for the suppression of subversive tendencies and activities, lies in the fact that they spread terror. That is a wholesome thing.

The frame through which I viewed the world changed too, over time. Greater than scene, I came to see, is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.