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Quotes About Perspective

Whoever has not ascended mountains knows little of the beauties of Nature.
~ Alfred William Howitt
Reality, like beauty, is in relationship and there only.
~ Vida Dutton Scudder
The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.
~ Jules de Goncourt
I don't believe in one ideal beauty.
~ Zac Posen
He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.
~ Blaise Pascal
Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
The beauty of a house by the lake side in the middle of wilderness can best be appreciated not by those who permanently live in the house but by the travellers passing by!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I want find to beauty in the world but to do so requires you to acknowledge and confront the darkness.
~ Ed Gass-Donnelly
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.
~ Justina Chen
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
~ Bill Watterson
Beauty alters the grain of reality.
~ Donna Tartt
To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.
~ Voltaire
... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
~ Chris Cleave
There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.
~ Unknown
Only bugs can truly appreciate the beauty of flowers.
~ Dov Davidoff
I don't understand beauty.
~ Douglas Coupland
Beauty exists irrespective of financial circumstances.
~ Frances Moore Lappé