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Despite the fact the studio looks out of five windows onto a picture perfect view of sky, hills and wide open spaces, I work with my blinds firmly drawn, daylight filtered through their white canvas, a painterly northern light falling through two big skylights above my table, and nothing visible outside to distract me.

— Debi Gliori

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.

— Jonathan Miller

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

— Grandma Moses

But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

— Sally Ride

Possibly I am difficult to live with, but I don't bring my work home much. I'm either busy or not busy. And I don't work from home. I have an office here which has a white wall. No view. I did try working in a room with a view but it was too interesting. Too distracting.

— Jack Dee

My eyes don't work, at least not fully, because they are blocked by disease. The scene around me appears through a kind of curtain, a haze.

— Henry Grunwald

I'm a big believer of daylight in the studio.

— Geddy Lee

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

— Ellsworth Kelly

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

— Klaus Kinski

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

— Mary Cassatt

✗Opposing Perspectives

Successful writers say you should never work from a desk with a view, and the view I have from this one is a huge distraction. There's a garden bursting with fresh vegetation, and just beyond the high wall at the end of it, I can see the sign of the local pub across the road. Distractions, eh? I'm so easily led.

— Matt Roper