Quotes About Perspective

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

Art is stronger than Nature

The source of all light is in the eye.

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.