Quotes About Perspective

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.

he was almost joyously what he had always been, a lot of gee whiz, it was all new and fresh even when surely he had seen much of it before, and it was as if he took delight in not having been changed externally by all that he had seen.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see the beauty in a hamburger bun.

David Herbert Donald

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. One person may even perceive deformity, where another is sensible beauty; and every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others. To seek the real beauty, or real deformity, is as fruitless an enquiry, as to pretend to ascertain the real sweet or real bitter.

Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.

the fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity

Beauty] exists merely in the mind which contemplates [things]; and each mind perceives a different beauty; and every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others.

Beauty in things exits merely in the mind which contemplates them.