Quotes About Observation

From top to bottom, from left to right, my glance has made a cross on that other woman, has crossed her off the face of the earth.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever. Merely think here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape.

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

To see, we must forget the name of the things we are looking at

The subject of so many films is the protection of the victim, and I think, I don't give a damn about those things. It's not the job of films to nurse people. With what's happening in the chemistry of love, I don't want to be a nurse or a doctor, I just want to be an observer." As a child, Claire Denis wished to be a nurse; she is no longer a child. Years have passed and soon we love this world, so soon we are willing to coexist with dust in our eyes.

You put on your glasses. The trees, their bark, their leaves, even the dead ones, are more vibrant wet. Yes, and it's raining. Each moment is like this- before it can be known, categorized as similar to another thing and dismissed, it has to be experienced, it has to be seen.

The man doesn't acknowledge you as you sit down because the man knows more about the unoccupied seat than you do. For him, you imagine, it is more like breath than wonder; he has had to think about it so much you wouldn't call it thought.

A particular bear...sees a particular this

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people's constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

All ethnography is part philosophy and a good deal of the rest is confession.

if you want to understand what a science is, you should look in the first in­stance not at its theories or its findings, and certainly not at what its apologists say about it; you should look at what the practitioners of it do.

The astronomer's rule of thumb: if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen

Ich langte in meine Tasche nach einem Milky Way - was sonst für einen Astronomen - und machte es mir bequem, um den Hacker auf meinem grünen Monitor zu beobachten.

We find in silence and body language the shadow of truth.

Dippers' are those who dig in into different issues and make commentaries without actually doing anything to resolve issues.

Many years I lived in the highlands, gazing at the lowlands. Then I decided to go down. Now, I look up at the highlands.

People of the world will never know everything about you. What is more important is for you to take some time to know everything around you... and learn from them.

She just stood there and looked at the empty highway, and you could almost tell how bored she was by the way she stood.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

On a scale of one to ten you're a two, and that's cuz I've never seen a one.

A man who wants to find out who he really is should try watching the woman he loves as she dances the tango with a maestro.

Schopenhauer extended the same idea by favouring real observation over erudition, and stated confidently that the second sapped the first.