Quotes About Observation

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

All creation is in the art of seeing.

Art is to look at not to criticize.

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

Art is about paying attention.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.

I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.

I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

The only thing that is not art is inattention