Quotes About Perspective

To easterners, "conservation" of water usually means protecting rivers from development; in the West, it means building dams.

Reason is the first casualty in a drought.

To some conservationists, the Colorado River is the preeminent symbol of everything mankind has done wrong—a harbinger of a squalid and deserved fate. To its preeminent impounder, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, it is the perfection of an ideal. The

Up close, the Granite Reef Aqueduct seems almost too huge to be real. Where will all the water come from? From the air, however, the aqueduct and the river it diverts are reduced to insignificance by the landscape through which they flow

You don't have the power to control the people, situations, and circumstances around you. You only have the power to control yourself.

Besides, it's always other people who die.

I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.

D'ailleurs c'est toujours les autres qui meurent.

Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are.

I don't believe in art. I believe in the artist.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

There is no solution because there is no problem.

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

La moralité n'est bien souvent qu'une affaire d'éclairage et tu es le gardien de ton propre phare. [in Éléments pour une éthique]

Voor sommige mensen is geluk zoiets ongewoons, zo zeldzaam, nieuw of vreemd, dat ze er nooit van kunnen genieten als ze gelukkig zijn, maar altijd pas achteraf, als het besef komt dat ze toen, op dit of dat moment, gelukkig waren.

Tell me what you laught at, and I'll tell you who you are.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Warum es den Menschen so schwer fällt, glücklich zu sein? Weil sie die Vergangenheit besser sehen als sie war, die Gegenwart schlechter als sie ist und die Zukunft rosiger als sie sein wird.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.