Quotes About Attention

The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Art is about paying attention.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

The only thing that is not art is inattention

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

Attention! Attention! Attention! Thou art aware of the situation!

I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves.

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.

The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.

I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.

Those who still think that listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.