Artificial Perspective

Famous quotes containing the words artificial and/or perspective:

    “It had not a New England but an Oriental character, reminding us of trim Persian gardens, of Haroun Al-raschid, and the artificial lakes of the East.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The fact that illness is associated with the poor—who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one’s midst—reinforces the association of illness with the foreign: with an exotic, often primitive place.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)