Best perspective & distance Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.”

Looks Perspective Mountain Distance Heavy Nevertheless Haze

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.”

Ifs Bigs Seems Perspective Fine Ordinary Distance Size Impression Branches Oaks

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance.”

Artist Lines Perspective Concern Infinite Distance Tone Colour Manipulation Delicate

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.”

Used Perspective Distance Proportion Sense Of Humor

Book:Up the Down Staircase

Source: Up the Down Staircase

“Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.”

Looks Bits Talking Comedy Wonderful Honesty Perspective Degrees Jokes Distance Hopefully Exception Devices

Author:Alexander Payne

“All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.”

Firsts Perspective Distance Best Things All The Best Far Distance

Book:The Little White Horse

Source: The Little White Horse

“History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.”

Needs Wells Facts History Events Perspective Distance Cease

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“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

“We in astrophysics we think of the universe all the time. So to us, Earth is just another planet. From a distance, it's a speck. And I'm convinced that if everyone had a cosmic perspective you wouldn't have legions of armies waging war on other people because someone would say, "Stop, look at the universe."”

People Ifs Thinking Looks War Earth Universe Planets Perspective Army Distance Convinced Cosmic Legion Specks Astrophysics Waging War

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.”

Matter Perspective Lows My Friends Criticism Distance Point Of View Relate Deceptive

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.”

Looks My Own Steps Events Perspective Personality Distance Primaries Masculine Protagonists Employing My Own Personality Distance Myself

Author:Tom Robbins

“Often what is nearest is hardest of all to see - try asking a fish to define water. Distance opens a door to revelation. When the first great distances of space were conquered by technology, a camera altered the human perspective on the Earth as radically as Galileo did when he proved the sun was the center of the universe. The ecology movement was born from a photographically altered consciousness.”

“In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.”

Light Worry Perspective Solitude Eternity Distance Traps Psychics

Author:Dallas Willard

“As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it.”

World Pain Certain Understanding Perspective Increase Distance Understanding The World

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“From my admittedly cranky perspective, Bush/Cheney are lousy on the Bill of Rights, Clinton/Gore were lousy on the Bill of Rights, and everyone within bribing distance of the 2008 election (Hillary, McCain, Giuliani) are lousy on the Bill of Rights, too.”

Rights Perspective Election Bills Distance Clinton Gore Mccain Bill Of Rights Cranky

Author:Matt Welch

“This mixture of Polish, not Polish, of being European, gives me a perspective to see Poland through "new eyes" - paradoxically, more closely... because it's from a kind of distance.”

Giving Kind Eye Perspective Give Me Distance Mixtures Polish Poland New Eyes

Author:Malgorzata Szumowska

“I was in my early thirties writing about my early twenties, so there was this way of seeing my younger self from enough of a distance to have perspective but also not to feel that I had to protect myself. My dreams for myself then would have undersold myself in a way.”

Way Feels Writing Self Enough Dream Seeing Perspective Protect Twenties Distance Younger Self

Author:Dani Shapiro

“In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.”

Mind Able Certain Perspective Distance Rational

Book:Remember, now be here, now here be

Source: Remember, now be here, now here be

“Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.”

Men Judging Perspective Distance

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I remember being fascinated by the graduated sizes and perspective on the sets [of Star Wars]. And how they put shorter people and kids in the uniforms and placed them in the distance to give the idea that these sets had more depth than they really did.”

People Giving Ideas War Kids Remember Stars Perspective Distance Depth Size Fascinated Uniforms

Author:John Ratzenberger

“The biggest strength is being able to have perspective. Get the distance, and it enables you to be able to laugh at yourself.”

Laughing Perspective Distance Laugh At Yourself

Author:Sara Benincasa

“You're looking for ways always as the writer to bring readers into intimacy, you with them with you. Photos can sometimes do the opposite, create distance and perspective, but these somehow didn't. They somehow bring the reader closer.”

Sometimes Perspective Distance Intimacy

Author:Nicole Krauss

“Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.”

Giving Perspective Distance Nostalgia Objectivity

Author:Robert Morgan

“Distance lends enchantment to the view.”

Wisdom Views Wise Perspective Mountain Perception Distance Borrowing Robes Enchantment Hue Azure Hallowed Ground

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain

“There are many instances in science, where those closest to the intricacies of the subject have a more highly developed sense of its intractability than those at some remove. On the other hand, those at too great a distance may, I am well aware, mistake ignorance for perspective.”

Wells May Mistake Ignorance Perspective Distance

Author:Carl Sagan

“Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.”

Mind Eye Effects Perspective Distance

Book:The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale

Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale

“The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.”

World I Can Ability Laughing Stage This World Perspective Distance Ridiculous Absurd Irony Dimensions Sense Of Humor Parody Ability To See

Author:Vaclav Havel

“[talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained. And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.' 'But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be... even on the Holocaust.”

Ifs Mean Jobs Past Talking Steps Fronts Perspective Periods Understood Distance Historian Holocaust Looking Back Anticipate Recent Past

Author:Alan Bennett

“This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the same time I needed some distance, some perspective on this experience in order to feel free enough to manipulate it and to transform it into fiction. If the experience is very close, I feel inhibited. I have never been able to write fiction about something that has happened to me recently. If the closeness of the real reality, of living reality, is to have a persuasive effect on my imagination, I need a distance, a distance in time and in space.”

Source: A Writer's Reality

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