Quotes About Observation

The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before.

The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an instinct for work can be an obstacle to the child's development

After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.

Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

God is always at work around you.

Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting.

It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly-his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work.

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

When I see guys in bars wearing the real fitted kind of Calvin Klein v-neck t-shirts I just want to go up to them and be like, 'Oh, do you work out? Your tricep looks so great - thank you.'

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.