George Eliot Quotes

It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

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.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.

Anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it.

Your frame of reference is what you see.

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

Everything seems simpler from a distance.

The way I see it, truth only looks good when you're looking at it from far away. It's kind of like that beautiful girl you see on the street when you're riding past in the bus... there she is, this amazing girl walking by on the street, and you think if you could only get off this stupid bus and introduce yourself to her, your life would change. The thing is, she's not as perfect as you think, and if you ever got off the bus to introduce yourself, you'd find out... This girl is truth. She's not so pretty, not so nice. But then, once you get to know her, all that stuff doesn't seem to matter.

The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.

Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!

At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.

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.

Distance makes everything beautiful.

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

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.

It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.