Quotes About Observation

I love women more on canvas than real life, for they seldom change on canvas!

Women are like elephants. They are interesting to look at but I wouldn't like to own one.

The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around

My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.

My work isn't about form. It's about seeing. I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people see things.

My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation

With sociology one can do anything and call it work

There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

The child will reveal himself through work.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.