Quotes About Perspective

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of the world.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child

Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Nature's arena has a way of humbling and energizing us.

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

For every person that likes you there is going to be a person that doesn't like you. It's the nature of humanity.

Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.