Quotes About Observation

Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.

Making art is about accepting what's going on around you and turning it into

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

Organized perception is what art is all about.

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.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

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 does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

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

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.

I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.