Quotes About Observation

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever.

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.

Write your own music and write frequently. Go to as many live shows as you can as well (of bands you enjoy of course). You can learn a lot watching other performers.

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.

Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.

Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.

I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.

The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.