Robert Grosseteste Quotes

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.

With the most powerful binoculars, I cannot see Alaska.

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.

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

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

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.

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

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.

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.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

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;

You've gotta understand camera angles, camera movement - a kick that may not be very powerful may look very powerful from a certain angle.

Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.

"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light."

The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.

Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.

The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.

Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.