Quotes About Perspective

And I watch my words from a long way off.. They are more YOURS than mine.. They climb on my old suffering like ivy...

How long does a man live, after all? Does he live a thousand days, or one only? A week, or several centuries? How long does a man spend dying? What does it mean to say 'for ever'? Lost in these preoccupation I set myself to clear things up. .... In my own country the undertakers answered me, between drinks: 'Get yourself a good woman and give up this nonsense.' And How Long - Pablo Neruda

veo el mundo enteramente rosa y azul.

Cuando no puedo mirar tu cara...miro tus pies.

Si hallas en un camino a un niño robando manzanas y a un viejo sordo con un acordeón, recuerda que yo soy el niño, las manzanas y el anciano. No me hagas daño persiguiendo al niño, no le pegues al viejo vagabundo, no eches al río las manzanas.

Everyone is after me to exercise, get in shape, play football, rush about, even go swimming and flying. Fair enough. Everyone is after me to take it easy. They all make doctor's appointments for me, eyeing me in that quizzical way. What is it? Everyone is after me to take a trip, to come in, to leave, not to travel, to die and, alternatively, not to die It doesn't matter.

And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine.

gay quien lo lea

For the diseased, what color do you think April is? Has pensado de que color es el Abril de los enfermos?

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about? -Pablo Picasso.

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change. And when it is finished, it still goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it. A picture lives a life like a living creature, undergoing the changes imposed on us by our life from day to day. This is natural enough, as the picture lives only through the man who is looking at it.

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.

Some painters turn a yellow dot into the sun, others turn the sun into a yellow dot.

I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.

Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting

Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?

alternate the theories you entertain about all things.

The close proximity in which people lived in India was in stark contrast to my independent existence in America.

She'd spent years trying to explain herself to me (and I to her), but in the end, it had all been for nothing. I could recite her memories, but I could not feel them. She was another country, and I would never travel there.