Quotes About Observation

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Even in front of nature one must compose.

The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.