Quotes About Observation

Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

An artist should have more than two eyes.

Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.

The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

Attention! Attention! Attention! Thou art aware of the situation!

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.

What's so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven't even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.

Drawing is the true test of art.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.