Quotes About Perspective

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

The true mark of maturity is when someone hurts you and you try and understand their situation instead of hurting them back.

Works of art are landscapes of the mind.

I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

Art is what everyone knows it is.

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

The aim of art is to create space.

Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

Painting is more important than art.

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer