Quotes About Perspective

When you look at my pictures, you are seeing my life.

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

I take a lot of pictures.

Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's why people take their own pictures, because it's difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

Some people take pictures; I write songs.

I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.

You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.

Everyone in my life who is important, they feed me humble pie.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.

There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs of science. And then you have the bodybuilders who view the doctors as too conservative to do anything interesting. So I've tried to become the middleman for putting some of those pieces together.

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.

Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.

When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder.

I don't care how many times I play 'Angry Birds.' When you have the world's cares on your shoulders and you fling those little birds at those rotten pigs, then the whole world just melts away.

We say that we are the guinea pigs of our experiment, we are doing things on ourselves, and if the audience can enjoy it as much as we do then that's great. If they don't, that's not a big deal.