Point Of View Quotes - Page 13

• Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.

  Jean Helion

  Art, Views, Risk

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• Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear at one moment from the point of view of a single spectator. This is the effect of perspective. Nothing of this sort existed in prehistory.

  Sigfried Giedion

  Art, Reality, Views

  Sigfried Giedion (1962). “The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art”, [New York

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• The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights.

  Richard Schmid

  Eye, Sight, Views

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• What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is in short, the ability to hold many points of view in suspension, along with a primary interest in the creation of common meaning.

  David

  Views, Essentials, Spirit

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• A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Work, Math, Ideas

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• We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.

  Walt Disney

  Fun, Views, Giving

  "The Gospel According to Disney : Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust". Book by Mark I. Pinsky, 2004.

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• Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Artist, Views, People

  Thomas Wolfe, Maxwell Evarts Perkins, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Park Bucker (2000). “To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe--Maxwell Perkins Correspondence”, p.128, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  Views, Years, Organization

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• From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Space, Enlightenment

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• You are god. To be conscious of that not just from the point of view of the human form, to be endless and beginningless perfect being, is to be enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Views, Perfect

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• Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Self, Views

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• When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Yoga, Self

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• Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Views, Opposites

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• You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of mind you are in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lying, Views, Mind

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• It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some difficulties, and to be criticized in rational terms. (Bohr's complementarity cannot be so criticized, I fear; it can only be accepted or denounced - perhaps as being ad hoc, or as being irrational, or as being hopelessly vague.)

  Karl Popper

  Science, Views, Ease

  Karl Popper, W.W. Bartley, III (2013). “Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics: From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.103, Routledge

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• The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific worker. For discovery and inquiry are synonymous as an occupation. Science is a pursuit, not a coming into possession of the immutable; new theories as points of view are more prized than discoveries that quantitatively increase the store on hand.

  John Dewey

  Thinking, Discovery, Views

  John Dewey (2012). “Reconstruction in Philosophy”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• I look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine - sometimes radically different from mine.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Jobs, Views, Different

  "Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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• I think it's my job to like any character I play - to understand and appreciate a character, to look at the world as much as possible from their point of view. I don't look at it just technically: learn the lines, figure out what gestures I want to bring and play, and that's it. I like to learn as much as I can about the person, and see what happens.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  "Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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• I often give my wife Carol scripts I'm offered and want her opinion - because she's a really smart lady, and she's got nothing to do with this business, so I get the audience's point of view.

  Scott Glenn

  Smart, Views, Giving

  "Scott Glenn on serial killers, Alan Shepard, and almost ending up on Sons Of Anarchy". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. May 4, 2015.

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• The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth.

  David Hare

  Russia, Views, America

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• To be a true icon, you have to have style emanating from you. And you have to have figured it out on your own and have a point of view, a perspective, and be able to translate it in some personal way.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Views, Icons, Perspective

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself, which has no subject, which means 'absolutely nothing' from the logical point of view.. ..should speak so strongly in us, evoke such agony or joy, that we feel compelled to paint.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Mean, Views, Desire

  "Letters of the great artists - from Ghiberti to Gainsborough" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 232), 1963.

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• If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

  Guido van Rossum

  Python, Views, Talking

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• From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.

  Jeff Goodell

  Cousin, Aquifers, Air

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• Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

  Carol Tavris

  Self, Views, People

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