Spectator Quote by Siri Hustvedt

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

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

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