Quotes About Perspective

nothing is accomplished when people face each other shouting words that neither hear.

In the end she'd decided it wasn't God she questioned so much as His organized believers.

Sometimes we're so intent on getting exactly what we ask for that we miss the fact our prayers have been answered in another way.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.

I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else.

When I look over the photographs Stieglitz took of me-some of them more than sixty years ago-I wonder who that person is. It is as if in my one life I have lived many lives. If the person in the photographs were living in this world today, she would be quite a different person-but it doesn't matter-Stieglitz photographed her then.

I do not like the idea of happyness — it is too momentary — I would say that I was always busy and interested in something — interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happyness.

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see--and I don't.

My friend Doris Bry says now that I've ruined her spelling because I misspell with such confidence.

Someone else's vision will never be as good as you own vision of yourself. Live and die with it, because in the end, that's all you have. Lose it and lose yourself and everything else.

I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do—isn't it enough just to express yourself.

It may look like a boat with a hole, but it may be a hole with a boat.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Oh, Mother, don't be so old-fashioned,' Margo said impatiently. 'After all, you only die once.' This remark was as baffling as it was true, and successfully silenced Mother.

If you want my personal view I do not think it matters what you worship provided what you worship does no harm to others....You must remember always that one man's God may be another man's fairy tale, but both Gods and fairy tales have their place in the world.

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't even there. — George Santanaya As