perspective quotes

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as paintingdoes,ormusic.If youarebornknowingthem,fine. If not, learn them.Then rearrangethe rulesto suit yourself.

-Truman Capote
  Interview in Paris Review, Summer.

May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in perspective.

- Paul Ce  zanne
  Letter to EŁ   mile Bernard,15  Apr.

There isnothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it maylight, shade and perspective will always make it beautiful.

-John Constable
Quoted in C R Leslie Memoirs of theLife of John Constable (1843).

Le vers est la forme optique de la pense  e.Voila'   pourquoi il convient surtout a'   la perspective sce  nique. Verse is the optical form of thought. That is the reason a scenic perspective suits it.

-Victor Marie Hugo
  Cromwell, pre  face.

Perspective is the bridle and rudder of painting.

-Leonardo daVinci
Quoted in Irma  A Richter (ed) Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1977).

Science provides a vision of reality seen from the perspective of reason, a perspective that sees the vast order of the universe, living and non-living matter, as a material system governed by rules that can be known by the human mind.It is a powerful vision, formal and austere but strangely silent about many of the questions that deeplyconcernus. Scienceshowsuswhat existsbut not what to do about it.

- Heinz R(udolf) Pagels
  The Dreams of Reason. US writer, Professor of Humanities  at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia.  Her  works  include  Sexual  Personae  (1990)  and Vamps andTramps (1994).

Her logic was a combination of half-truths and cliche  s, her worldviewa compound of misconceptions deriving from a history of our nation as written from the perspective of a subway tunnel.

-John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces (published1980), ch.5, pt.3.

O what a lovely thing this perspective is!

- Paolo Uccello
Attributed in GiorgioVasari Lives of theArtists (1568, translated by George Bull,1965).