Causes Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

— William Wilberforce

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.

— Sean Lennon

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from…

— Anonymous

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down…

— Anthony Trollope

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

“It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic view and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to see macrosopically.”

— Marilyn Frye

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

— Isaac Newton