Quotes About Perspective

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

A philosopher worthy of the name has never said more than a single thing: and even then it is something he has tried to say, rather than actually said. And he has said only one thing because he has seen only one point: and at that it was not so much a vision as a point of contact.

Il suffit que nous bouchions nos oreilles au son de la musique, dans un salon où l'on danse, pour que les danseurs nous paraissent aussitôt ridicules. Combien d'actions humaines résisteraient à une épreuve de ce genre?

Mais l'idée que le monde entier, y compris les êtres vivants, relève de la mathématique pure, n'est qu'une vue a priori de l'esprit, qui remonte aux cartésiens.

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which can mold us, but which can also be affected by us. A balance must be established between these two worlds—the one inside us and the one outside us.

How do you make your pictures? — I don't know, it's not important.

En la vida como en la fotografía, hay que pasar los negativos a positivos

If youth but know, And old age only could.

All appears to change when we change.

C'est tellement triste quand le bonheur s'arrête que je suis pas sûr qu'il vaille le coup.

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

Siempre hay flores para aquellos que desean verlas.

I am made of all that I have seen.

This is why journeys are useful, they enlarge the space that is around us.

Il y a toujours des fleurs pour ceux qui veulent les voir.

It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.

There is not one self. There are not ten selves. There is no self. ME is only a position in equilibrium. (One among a thousand others, continually possible and always at the ready.) An average of "me's," a movement in the crowd. In the name of many, I sign this book.

Extending his hands from his bed, Plume was astonished not to feel the wall: "Well," he concluded, "the ants must have eaten it away." And he went back to sleep. Shortly thereafter, his wife shook him awake: "Take a good look, lazybones! While you were so busy sleeping, someone went and stole our house!" And indeed, stretching out on every side there was nothing but solid sky. "So it goes," he thought.

If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.

[G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.