“I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has made going to art museums way more fun than you can imagine.” WayTryingArtMadeBookHandsFunStudyImaginePerspectiveExcellentMuseumsProvidingArt HistoryStudying Art Author:Gideon Glick
“Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the content, because those artists were part of an ancient tradition. Our tradition changes rapidly, our schools of thought come to fruition quickly and decay again. We see differently.” TryingSchoolFormArtistLosesStudyPerspectiveTraditionAncientDrawingChineseConventionsDecayBrushesTextureFruition Author:John French Sloan
“For years I study. I look long at olive trees, all gray and silver, and watch the sunlight. Ah, yes, I am ver' lazy, but I see after I look long that it is perspective that give it this quality. Perspective, and absolute faith to the subject.” GivingYearsLooksLongQualityWatchesStudyTreeSubjectsPerspectiveAbsolutesLazySilverGraySunlightOlivesOlive Trees Author:Ugo Mochi
“If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.” IfsArtStudyColorPerspectiveGeniusLet MeMathematicsRefuseDrawingLazinessAestheticsAnatomy Author:Salvador Dali
“The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on and turn off genes in ways that disregulate cell growth and predispose for cancer. From this perspective, our genes are less the command-and-control masters of our cells and more like the keys of piano, with the environment as the hands of the pianist.” WayHandsTurnsGrowthStudyEnvironmentFieldsExpressionMastersPerspectiveKeysEnvironmentalCancerCommandCellsSubstancePianoChemicalsGenesPollutionExposureTurn-onPianistTurn OffCommand And Control Book:Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment Source: Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
“Paolo Uccello's wife told people that Paolo used to stay up all night in his study trying to work out the vanishing points of his perspective. When she called him to come to bed, he would say "Oh what a lovely thing this perspective is!"” PeopleTryingUsedNightStudyWifePerspectiveBedWork OutLovelyOld PeopleAll NightVanishingUp All NightLovely ThingsVanishing Point Author:Giorgio Vasari
“I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players and arrangers and composers; I came to playing in a band from the perspective of someone who never expected to play guitar in a band.” PlayStudyPlayerPerspectiveListeningGrewBandGrew UpGuitarExpectedPianoComposerGuitar PlayerStudying Music Author:Daniel Rossen