70 Prism Quotes

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Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass. — Jonathan Kellerman

The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains. — E. E. cummings

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that. — Charles R. Brown

Friendship is like a prism through which the many variations of beauty are revealed in our lives. — Anonymous

A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance. — Dan Flavin

The stars are the apexes of what triangles! — Henry David Thoreau

Perspective is an Art Mathematical which demonstrates the manner and properties of all radiations direct, broken and reflected. — John Dee

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener. — Arvo Part

Don't let that little pyramid with the bright eye fool you. That's to draw your attention away from the real thing: the big trapezoid beneath it. — Anton Szandor LaVey

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. — Paul Cezanne

The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us. — Tony Blair

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder. — Vera Nazarian

In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it — Pedro Calderon de la Barca

For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality. — Austin Osman Spare

It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul. — Plato

Short Prism Quotes

  • Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. — Charles Dickens
  • We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes. — Queen Rania of Jordan
  • I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism. — Bruce Dickinson
  • English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows. — Denis Johnson
  • I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism. — Tim Hansel
  • Biography is history seen through the prism of a person. — Louis Fischer
  • Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye. — Karl Joseph, Prince de Ligne
  • Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper. — Ray Bradbury
  • A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. — William Wordsworth
  • She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love. — Salman Rushdie
Prism quote Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

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More Prism Quotes

My understanding of the world is all through the prism of martial arts. It’s affected every aspect of my life. — Valentina Shevchenko

The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light. The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. On the Offshore Lights you can live any story you want to tell yourself, and no one will say you're wrong: not the seagulls, not the prisms, not the wind. — M. L. Stedman

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum. — Jonathan Safran Foer

When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism. — Colin Firth

The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness. — Robert Barron

Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind. — Frederick Lenz

When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion. — Diane Ackerman

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. — William Wordsworth

If you are liberated then you can be in the crowd and there is no crowd. You can be surrounded by the world and their is no world. You have shattered the prism of illusion. — Frederick Lenz

Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience. — Carl Sagan

There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context. — Amish Tripathi

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism. — Chuck Klosterman

You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism. — J. D. Hayworth

True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision. — Jorge Luis Borges

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience. — Peter Block

The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism. — Zack Snyder

Eric Holder sees everything through the prism of race. He keeps that mustache because shaving cream is white. — Greg Gutfeld

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away. When I am gone, I hope it can be said of me that I plucked a thistle and planted a flower wherever I thought a flower would grow. — Anonymous

The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion. — Frank Luntz

I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law. — Harry Hamlin

I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism. I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you. — Cate Blanchett

Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms. — Mike Jackson

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away. — Abraham Lincoln

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea. — Henri Frederic Amiel

all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people. — Rita Mae Brown

If you want, you can try and get a broader perspective, or you can find people who are absolutely out of their minds, or find people that are doing incredibly complex and interesting and urgent journalism. And the same goes for our show. It's a prism into people's own ideologies, when they watch our program. This is just our take. — Jon Stewart

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words. — Carl Sandburg

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