Quotes About Observation

Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.

I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.

Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

Listening to nature's operating instructions.

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long.

The place to observe nature is where you are.

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

If you go out and watch nature closely, you will find something so joyful that it will completely fill you.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.

The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.