Quotes About Perspective

Maybe when we see things all the time, we stop really looking at them. And it takes an artist, someone who can look past the ordinariness, to remind us how special they really are" -Lily

What I love about art is that anything is possible. Bees can be pink. Trees can be purple. It's like taking the world as it is and then swirling it around to show how it could be" -Salma

Oh, people will think what they think!...Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones who do.

As we continued upward, I thought about how adults sometimes complain that kids only think about ourselves, but it's not true. We care a lot about other people, but most times, we don't have the power to change things for them.

Mom says I have to deal with what is and not to get my hopes up, but how else can hopes go but up?

I think art can take ordinary things and show them to you like it's the first time you've ever seen them. And you realize that even ordinary things aren't really ordinary at all" -Salma

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true.

I imagined Dad beside me: "It's pretty," he'd say. "But pretty isn't enough for a great photograph. Show me why I care. What's the story?

Looking close can make something beautiful. Not everything worth keeping has to be useful. If you don't have the words you need, borrow someone else's.

I like art because there are no wrong answers. It's all about how you see the world. So you can be completely yourself" -Salma

Sometimes I can change how I feel about something by drawing it.

If men liked shopping, they'd call it research.

Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

Admittedly, there is always a golden age, the one not ours, the one that once was or will someday be. One's own time is never satisfactory, except to the very rich or the smugly oblivious.

I work from a different theory. For everything there's a bad way of describing, also a good way. You pick the good way, you get along better.

Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

The war was just a mile or so away, and I wondered at my simply walking to it, as I might walk to the market or to school. Today I will walk to the war.

The range of our knowledge of reality is limited by our pre-existing beliefs, assumptions, and expectations

The more attention we pay to the idea that reality shifts, the more we see our reality shift

I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I felt I understood nothing of people and had no way to learn. I felt fear. Until you have felt fear, you cannot imagine it. Once you have really felt it, you know that all your earlier nervousness was but a pale shadow.

Once again, everything had changed on them. Perhaps it was all this changing that made her sad.

I've known for a long time it's useless to try to share what you don't understand yourself.