Quotes About Perspective

You're better equipped for this world than I am, she said. I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book may create an illusion of reality as a clock creates an illusion of time; a book may be real, just as a clock is real (both more real, perhaps, than those ideas to which they allude); but let's not kid ourselves - all a clock contains is wheels and springs and all a book contains is sentences.

Madame Lily Devalier always asked Where are you? in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.

I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.

My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.

To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

Live the beauty or your own reality.

The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't follow you home and park your car.

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

The purpose of art is to provide what life does not.

People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.

If there's a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn't exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn't have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that's it. That's all an artist does.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes. --Villa Incognito