Vitruvius Quotes

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.

Where you are defines what you're interested in.

Your frame of reference is what you see.

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

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;

My technique has always been to include all the periphery around me.

You have full-field view when you're watching the film. Eye in the sky, it's a lot easier to look at it that way than when you're back behind center.

In terms of work, I'm doing exactly the same as I've always done. It's what's around me that's changed.

Something that has been every important to me in all my projects has been location, the place where they are installed.

We are surrounded by story.

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

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.

Fish are not the best authority on water.

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

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.