Perspective Quotes

"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points." "I think there is beauty in everything. What ‘normal’ people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it." "In art, there are no beginnings" "A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist." "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom" "It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place" "An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns but never looking up to see where they come from" "The worst taste of all is not to taste" "The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life" "A proud man is always looking down on things" "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin" "Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer." "Each poet creates an expatriate space, a slightly skewed domain where things are freshly felt because they are freshly said." "Life is a joke, and death is its punchline."