Walter Savage Landor Quotes

Beauty is only about relationships. Nothing is beautiful on its own.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?

But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

Beauty, my dear Sir, is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in him who beholds it. If our sight were longer or shorter, or if our constitution were different, what now appears beautiful to us would seem misshapen, and what we now think misshapen we should regard as beautiful. The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible. Some things are beautiful at a distance, but ugly near;

Size doesn't mean anything - not all the time.

The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.

When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.

The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.

I don't think anyone's normal.

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

Facts do not constitute truth.

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

Normal is all relative.