Quotes About Perspective

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

Life is so short, so beautiful. Don't be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before.

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don't see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.

Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.

If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.