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“The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.”

Looks May Eye Pain Vision Seeing Information Objects Source Perspective Taste Meetings Hearing Smell Senses Temperature

Author:Richard Gregory

“There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.”

Firsts Seems Eye Three Objects Color Perspective Ought Aspect Thirds Distance Size Finished Diminish

Book:Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

“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 Force Objects Painting Perspective Disappear Beholder

Book:Georges Braque

Source: Georges Braque

“Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.”

Sides Objects Perspective Treats Planes Spheres Methodology Cones Cylinders

Author:Paul Cezanne

“Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.”

Eye Lines Objects Perspective Proportion Centre Outlines Plasticity

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Is not about creating an object. It is about creating a perspective.”

Objects Perspective Creating

Author:Albert Paley

“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

“One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.”

Wells Doe Made Said Two Reality Language Common Written Objects Poet Perspective Reader Honor Demand Unique Significant Two Things Validity Poetry By Famous Poets Unique Perspective

Author:W. H. Auden

“Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.”

Mean Eye Names Lines Fronts Objects Perspective Distance Starting Edges Surface Rational Consideration Demonstration Pyramids Transmit

Book:The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete

“With respect to phenomena like mass extinction, somebody might say why worry about it because in a geological perspective mass extinctions aren't so bad, they wipe out some things and then 10 million years down the road we get new and interesting objects.But I tell you mass extinctions are really awful for folks caught in the midst of them.”

Years Might Interesting Millions Worry Objects Perspective Mass Folks Caught Awful Midst Extinction Wipe Down The Road Mass Extinction

Author:Richard Lewontin

“Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object”

Different Self Social Acting Environment Objects Theory Perspective Oneself Agents Rejects Conception Shifting Transforming Cognitive Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“I think, though, that perspective-awareness may follow from a kind of speaking that also came into my work more recently - the "assay" poems (some labeled that, some not) that engage an abstraction or object from multiple angles.”

Thinking Kind May Awareness Objects Perspective Multiple Angle Abstraction

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.”

People Ifs Giving Objects Perspective

Author:Sean Lennon

“Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that.”

Too Much Objects Perspective Size Careful Tiny Be Careful

Author:Bryan Singer

“Seen from a monocultural perspective, manipulating objects is very, very clever. But seen from a multidimensional perspective, from a perspective of diversity, this is extremely crude because what we have lost out on is a cow that serves as a source of sustainable energy.”

Energy Lost Objects Source Perspective Diversity Clever Cows Crude Very Clever Sustainable Energy

Author:Vandana Shiva