Art Quote by Walter J. Phillips

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

There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments.

— Paul Laseau

An illustration is a visual editorial - it's just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every…

— Charles M. Blow

The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his…

— Eugene Delacroix

A work based only on a line concept is scarcely more than a illustration; it fails to achieve pictorial structure. Pictorial structure is based…

— Hans Hofmann

Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were…

— Rudy Rucker

Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Perspective was always important. There are some cartoonists who can stand at the foot of a building looking straight up and they'll capture it…

— Gary Larson

The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in…

— Augustus De Morgan