Quotes About Perspective

It's the hardest addiction of all,' said Patrick. 'Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, that deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper. the photographer begins with the finished product

I know it sounds like the end of the world, but worlds are ending every day and it's not always such a bad thing.

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.

As a counselor, I have spoken with many people who want to know their spiritual gifts. They come hoping for some sort of diagnostic test that will precisely locate them. My impression is that this perspective represents a breakdown in the church. It reflects a church where we are running around as self-actualizing individuals rather than uniting as a God-glorifying community.

Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

To envy a man is to misunderstand him or yourself (pp 111).

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

Comparisons must be enforced within the scope of the eyespan, a fundamental point occasionally forgotten in practice.

They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog — keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe.

Anything more than 500 yds from the car just isn't photogenic.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection . . .

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Like our shadows,Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

All men think all men are mortal but themselves.

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear: Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life.

All men think all men mortal but themselves.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Assuming her most gracious manner, my Wife advanced towards the Stranger, "Permit me, Madam, to feel and be felt by " then, suddenly recoiling, "Oh! it is not a Woman, and there are no angles either, not a trace of one. Can it be that I have so misbehaved to a perfect Circle?" "I am indeed, in a certain sense a Circle," replied the Voice, "and a more perfect Circle than any in Flatland; but to speak more accurately, I am many Circles in one."

The world is not a prison house, but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.

What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive of it.