Quotes About Observation

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.

I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.

Ive always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.

I'm working so much I don't see the work of many young cartoonists so it's hard for me to tell which are my favourites. Maybe when I get to stick my head out of the sand I'll be able to let you know.

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.

With Steven Meisel, I'd looked at his work from afar and always loved it, and when I started to work with him, I was blown away. He taught me so much about looking at women and looking at images.

I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

Seeing David Mackenzie's work in "Starred Up," I thought that was a wonderful film.

If someone at Fleet Farm offers you assistance and they don't work there you might live in Wisconsin.

To be in Brazil and see the work of Os Gêmeos or to be in England and see what Banksy is doing is pretty fascinating to me.

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't know about, and what I don't know about is the everyday, normal world.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

I like comics like Janeane Garofalo who is very stream of conscious in an honest way.

What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.

All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

I'm always looking at cars on the street or online.

If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.

It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.