Quotes About Observation

The best thing about photography: it changes your point of view.

cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event

Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

art is a mode of stalking

My father said that artists see the world differently than normal people. I see a tree where you mights see a collection of lines, shapes, and shadows.

Who knows when a trenchant line becomes a human face?

A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost.

The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.

The photographer does the world a great disservice when she leaves her camera at home.

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Artists show us what we blind to."Baris Gencel

Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgement.

There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.

Photography is not a lens but eye, not a business but art

Ocular infidelity is unfortunately rampant in this so called "artist's world.

Artists shows us what we blind to.

Children like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.

Art does not reproduce the visible rather it makes it visible.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.

The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away.