When youre in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. Thats the consolation of philosophy. – David Cronenberg
Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting. – Leonardo DaVinci
Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes. – Sonya Hartnett
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. – Samuel Johnson
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. – Carl Gustav Jung
Look down at me and you see a fool; – Charles Manson
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. – Sylvia Plath
A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence. – Thomas Traherne
