Quotes about Perspective

Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

Jesus is Jesus. So, I'm not sure I'd get into the business of making somebody into Jesus. That's just me.

It doesn't matter where you live...It doesn't matter how you live. It doesn't matter what car you drive. It doesn't matter what kind of clothes you wear.

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

Perhaps even atheism versus theism is an example of this principle that an apparent either/or can really be a both/and. For I suspect that the God you insist does not exist is probably a God I also insist does not exist; and perhaps the God I maintain does exist is a God you have never denied.

When you're in a burning building looking out of the twentieth story window down to the street and all you see is clouds of billowing smoke, you have to choose to believe the firemen below who tell you they have a safety net and it's safe to jump. When the clouds of smoke disappear, you don't have to believe any more: you see it. In this world, it's a leap in the dark; in the next world, it's a leap in the light.

Expect the world to be Heaven, and it will feel like Hell. Expect it to be Purgatory, and it will feel like Heaven. The two most salient facts about Purgatory are pain and hope, suffering and meaning.

are more like Dog and Cat and Bird than like Lassie and Fido and Spot. Therefore