Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have…

The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest…

— David Hockney

The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by…

— Sam Harris

Your eye level is your reference point for drawing the perspective lines. All lines above your eye level will go down to the horizon…

— Robert A. Lovett

I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and…

— Louis Agassiz

“I’ve reached the vanishing point without you. Here my heartache begins with your pain trying to find an unborn start in this fatal disappearance…

— Munia Khan

Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing…

— Andre Comte-Sponville

This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad…

— Lucy Grealy

Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in the sense…

— Hans Hofmann

... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows…

— Wallace Stegner

Love and hate, black and white, Right or wrong, who is right? Some smoke joints to anoint their brain To the vanishing point...so they…

— Pharoahe Monch

Paolo Uccello's wife told people that Paolo used to stay up all night in his study trying to work out the vanishing points of…

— Giorgio Vasari

“If international law is, in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the…

— Hersch Lauterpacht

Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research,…

— Tana French

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

— Marshall McLuhan

In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather than from…

— George Santayana