Quotes About Perspective

Dichiaro solennemente di non saperne nulla, ma dico che la vista delle stelle, mi fa sognare tanto semplicemente quanto quei punti neri che nelle carte geografiche rappresentano città e villaggi. E mi dico: perché i punti luminosi del firmamento dovrebbero esserci meno accessibili che i punti neri della carta di Francia?

In Antwerp I did not even know what the impressionists were, now I have seen them and though not being one of the club yet I have much admired certain

one is always in respectable company among rather well-to-do bourgeois, one does not notice this so much perhaps, but if one has dined for years on la vache enragée, as I have, one cannot deny that great misery is a fact that weights the scale.

You have changed since then, you are no longer the same." Well, that is not entirely true. What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.

Accustoming oneself to poverty, seeing how a soldier or a labourer lives and thrives in wind and weather, with ordinary people's fare and dwelling, is just as practical as earning a few guilders more a week. After all, one is not in the world for one's own comfort, and one does not need to be better off than one's neighbour.

So now, when anyone says that such and such is done too quickly, you can reply that they have looked at it too quickly.

Si realmente amas la naturaleza, encontrarás la belleza en todas partes

For the moment the solitude doesn't bother me, and later we will find someone for company, and perhaps in the end more than we want. I believe it is not necessary to say anything unpleasant to Gauguin if he does change his mind, and take it absolutely in good part.

But what would Monsieur Tersteeg say about this picture when he said before a Sisley - Sisley, the most discreet and gentle of the impressionists - "I can't help thinking that the artist who painted that was a little tipsy." If he saw my picture, he would say that it was delirium tremens in full swing.

To tell you the truth, I couldn't spare either the old- or the new-fashioned manner. Too many beautiful things have been done too unusually well for me to prefer one to the other systematically. And the changes which the moderns have made in art are not always for the better; not everything means progress - neither in the works nor in the artists themselves - and often it seems to me that many lose sight of the origin and the goal, or in other words, they do not stick to the point.

Les morts font de ceux qui restent des fabricateurs de récits.

Accept that you will never be objective enough to judge your personal writing very well. During

They say, "If you have true love, let it go and it will come back." I don't think so. True love is like a cupcake, it should be enjoyed immediately.

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

Is life too short to be taking this shit, or is life too short to be minding it?

Passage of time lends perspective to one's observations; perspective then leads to wisdom.

To understand the real impact of changes in the national state of mind, one has to wait for at least a few decades.

money is something but not everything

some say that the world may end with fire but some say with ice.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit (Perhaps it will be pleasing sometime to have remembered these things, from The Aeneid)

Death twitches my ear; 'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.

Ain't got no reason to be complainin', and I done got me a heap of reasons to be thankful. I reckon that makes me be doin' just fine,

every generation of people thinks they are growing up into a harder time. She thinks maybe it makes them feel better about the struggle they have leaving their childhood behind.

North. He believes they saw him as