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Quotes About Observation

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
~ Confucius
It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.
~ Franz Kafka
The better you look, the more you see.
~ Unknown
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
~ E. B. White
I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
~ Evelyn Underhill
As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.
~ Bill Nighy
There's great beauty on this world if you just have the eyes to see it.
~ Henry Travers
I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.
~ Scarlett Johansson
There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it
~ Andy Warhol
The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.
~ Jim Jarmusch
Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
There's beauty in everything, but not everyone is able to feel it.
~ Unknown
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
~ Jean Cocteau
There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.
~ Matthew Fox
Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.
~ Voltaire
Beauty can be seen in all things.
~ Matt Hardy
Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.
~ Anne Michaels
My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see
~ Marcel Duchamp
The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
~ Yann Arthus-Bertrand
You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful.
~ Monty Don