Quotes About Perspective

For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception, but religious wars have been fought over such.

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

A lovers' quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

Either way, things are a lot better — either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.

The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

I look at it this way. I'm not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder.

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.

What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.'

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

A quote by film director Robert Bresson (1901-1999), 'Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen' (as cited in The Independent I, 2019), encapsulates why, although there appears to be a gap between peers' early language skills, it is necessary to go beyond rhetoric and supposition.

A whole made of good images can be detestable.

Be the first to see what you see as you see it.

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white -- we call it black.

Look not thou down but up!

To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day.

We're made so that we loveFirst when we see them painted, things we have passedPerhaps a hundred times nor cared to see;And so they are better, painted—better to us,Which is the same thing. Art was given for that.