Century Quote by Georges Braque Download Open image “Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.” — Georges Braque ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Failure Four Ghastly Mistake Perspective Redress Taken
Perspective is a kind of mental sunblock that, provided we apply it properly, prevents us from getting burned by past mistakes. — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed. — Tibor Kalman Copy Share Image
“Perspective has two definitions. Context: a sense of the larger picture of the world, not just what is immediately in front of us Framing:… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Even a small amount of perspective can change our lives. Because even the smallest amount of perspective can change how we are able to… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
“Perspective is an incredibly powerful tool. It tempers how we receive information, and guides what we choose do with it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments. — Paul Laseau Copy Share Image
Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took,… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image