Eugene Delacroix Quotes

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

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.

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.

Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen by a one-eyed, motionless person who is clearly detached from what he sees. It makes a God of the spectator, who becomes the person on whom the whole world converges, the Unmoved Onlooker.

Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.

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

Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that.

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large that which is small.

When you look into a mirror it is not yourself you see, but a kind of apish error posed in fearful symmetry kool uoy nehW rorrim a otni ton si ti ˛ees uoy flesruoy dnik a tub rorre hsipa fo lufraef ni desop yrtemmys

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.

I'm such a jerk; it had never occurred to me that when we look at a photo from the front, the eyes reproduce exactly the position and the vision of the lens; it's these things that are taken for granted and it never occurs to anyone to think about them.

The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.

She was surprised at how tiny it seemed now. She supposed the school was just as big as it had ever been only her eyes had grown used to looking at bigger things.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Today I no longer need to change the world around me. I just need to change the way I see it.