Quotes About Perspective

Weil die an den Himmel glauben, wollen sie auf der Erde nichts ändern.

E che cosa ce ne faremo della ricchezza? La posso mangiare? Dormirò meglio quando sarò ricco? Non andrò forse più in fabbrica, e che cosa farò tutto il giorno? No, Borkhausen, io non voglio diventare ricco e in questo modo, poi, certamente no. Una simile ricchezza non vale neanche un morto.

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. … I only know two types of wine — red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries — industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

I have always believed that it is the artist who creates a work, but a society that turns it into a work of art. - Johannes Cladders

I think that one of the things I have always found most attractive about art and music and culture is the experience of how it can change one's thinking. This has always been the big pay-off for me. - Tony Conrad

We have seen how someone else has encountered the word of God, we have even profited by his encounter, but all the same it was his and not ours—and we ourselves have achieved nothing.

Oviedo y Valdes, Bat? Hint Adalar?'nda hastal?ktan (büyük ihtimâlle frengi) çekmi? ilk hristiyan yerle?imcilerden bahseder ve ekler: "?talyanlar?n buna 'Frans?z Hastal???' ve Frans?zlar?n da 'Napoli Hastal???' dedi?ini duyup çok güldüm; asl?nda ikisi de 'Hint Adalar? Hastal???' deseymi? daha yerinde olurmu?.

We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.

In truth history does not belong to us but rather we to it.

No characters in 'Stay Close ' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

We get mad at someone for cutting us off in traffic or for taking too long to order at Starbucks or for not responding exactly as we see fit, and we have no idea that behind their facade, they may be dealing with some industrial-strength shit. Their lives may be in pieces. They may be in the midst of incalculable tragedy and turmoil, and they may be hanging on to their sanity by a thread. But we don't care. We don't see. We just keep pushing.

They say when you die there's a light at the end of the tunnel. When my father dies, he'll see the light, make his way toward it, and then flip it off to save electricity.

We, who live in the cities, see but a little farther than across the street. We spend our days looking at the work of our own and our neighbors' hands. Small wonder our lives have so little of God in them, when we come in touch with so little that God has made.

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

As an addict who will read anything, I obeyed, but I am not saved, and return to tell you neither what to read nor how to read it, only what I have read and think worthy of rereading, which may be the only pragmatic test for the canonical.

Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense) exposure of one mind to another.

My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.

The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but I swore that nothing would ever make me say life should be anything...

And what is love? My measure of it is that I should have died to spare her. Her measure is for us to be together longer. I

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Making photos that are as capable as the human eye is a very big deal. And when using HDR, the extended dynamic range can even go beyond what the human eye can perceive, creating images that have never been possible before. This means that with your photos and HDR, the world can be seen in an entirely new way.