Quotes About Perspective

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

No one really believes in equality who's on top.

It's on us to investigate ourselves for any lingering sense that we are 'giving' equality. We are not. It is already given. And not by us.

When we become acquainted with any person on a human level, even a great enemy, we begin to see that no person is really so different from ourselves.

Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.

My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.

You bring to a painting your own experience.

Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic

Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.

It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.

We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.