Quotes About Perspective

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature.

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.

One swallow never makes a summer.

Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.

... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'

Some movies - even movies you've done way before - they're just clearer in nature.