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“Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.”

Mistake Taken Four Century Perspective Ghastly Redress

Book:Georges Braque

Source: Georges Braque

“Initiating and going through a divorce with four kids can be a brutal experience, but also a tempering one. It gave me perspective and insight to be able to find the love of my life.”

Kids Able Four Perspective Insight Divorce Brutal Love Of My Life Going Through Divorce

Author:Tony Robbins

“When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would sketch and I was using perspective, the good relationship of the subject.”

Children Four Subjects Perspective Drawing Good Relationship Sketching

Author:Arman

“The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.”

Should Art Hard Whole Form Force Mistake Taken Four Century Objects Painting Perspective Tradition Credit Disappear Renaissance Imposing Beholder Ghastly Redress Cezanne

Author:Georges Braque

“That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.”

Years Persons Character Lasts Loses Decision Break Four Serious Perspective Disaster Absurd Barack Abandon Insightful Four Years Admirable Composure

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“The observations that have developed over the years have given us perspective about where we fit in. We are newcomers, really recent arrivals on a planet that is four and a half billion years old.”

Years Given Half Four Planets Perspective Fit Billions Observation Arrivals Newcomers

Author:Sylvia Earle

“"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms and not simply computerized brains. By focusing totally on the present, thinking only about science and computers, and forgetting four billion years of life on this planet, we are losing perspective on who and what we are.”

Thinking Way Years Mean Lost Natural Forget Brain Four Planets Perspective Computer Losing Billions Organisms Natural History Years Of Life

Author:Robert Neelly Bellah

“Mostly I'm just not American. I spent four years of my childhood here, but I think if you're Canadian you have a very different perspective. You don't think you're at the center of things.”

Ifs Thinking Years Different Four Childhood Perspective Four Years Different Perspective

Author:Mary Harron

“But from the perspective of the aging parent, there is no major difference between four and fifteen, except that when your child is four, his motoring privileges are restricted to little toy Fisher-Price vehicles which are unlikely (although I would not totally rule it out in America) to sue you.”

Children Littles America Parent Differences Four Perspective Majors Our Children Aging Privilege Your Children Vehicle Toys Fifteen Unlikely Aging Parents

Book:Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

“I remember the first day I got there, they started the take and after four takes I was on the ground, on my back, with a banana and a Twizzler in my hand, and my face was green, and they said, "You can't get back on set for another 30 minutes." That was a, "Welcome to Atlanta," and that put everything in perspective.”

Firsts Said Hands Remember Faces Four Minutes Perspective Green Welcome Get Back They Said Bananas Atlanta

Author:Steven Yeun