Quotes About Perspective

Artists show us what we blind to."Baris Gencel

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous!

Photography is not a lens but eye, not a business but art

Art is unpredictable.

Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you.

Artists shows us what we blind to.

Art does what reality cannot.

We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.

It's not what you see that is art art is the gap.

The artist does not see things as they are but as he is.

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.

They say your attitude determines your latitude.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

There can only be one solution to any problem: a change in attitude and in consciousness.

Attitude is everything, so pick a good one

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.