Quotes About Perspective

My body of work means nothing to me

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.

When I speak or when I offer ideas and explain how the universe seems to work from the point of view that I've understood, it seems to give people a lift - an unshackling or freeing.

A lot of people dont think of my work as being all that funny, but I think its hilarious!

Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.

Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement.

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

Work travel for me, which is - I hate to say it - more enjoyable now that I have kids.

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

I enjoyed the army reserve, and I learned a lot from it, but I also... it helped me work out that I didn't want to live in that kind of closed environment.

We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.

I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.

Being without work [in the United States] is still far better for most people than being employed in Central America.

It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another.

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

I'm working so much I don't see the work of many young cartoonists so it's hard for me to tell which are my favourites. Maybe when I get to stick my head out of the sand I'll be able to let you know.

These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.

When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.

With Steven Meisel, I'd looked at his work from afar and always loved it, and when I started to work with him, I was blown away. He taught me so much about looking at women and looking at images.

I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.

Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.

My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review.