Quotes About Perspective

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.

I'm very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.

As far as my opinion on galleries, I think they are a great thing. I see them as another outlet. I'm sure by now you've figured out that I do my work for everybody to see. That's the whole point.

The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.

If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't discuss concrete issues.

The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?

In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.

Work only a half a day. It makes no difference which half-the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours.

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.

Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.