Quotes About Observation

One of my favorite things about art, especially at a gallery, is hearing people talk about the art. I find it quite amusing.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

I like the sense of the road passing my eyes. It's always a fascinating experience to come into a new city...the sense of the people changing, the food changing, everything changing, the art.

A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.

All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particular sense more active and more acute.

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.

Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art.

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

The eye is the best of artists.

Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.

Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.

Art opens the fishiest eye . . .

If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well....

I'm pretty much looking for beauty all the time. It just seems like some days the light is better to see it.