Quotes About Observation

From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.

There's beauty all around our paths, If but our watchful eyes Can trace it 'midst familiar things, And through their lowly guise.

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.

Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

I always hear myself saying , 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.

The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.

Were there not these still mirrors to reflect the beauty of the heavens to us, it might be lost to eyes so seldom lifted upwards.

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

I don't know how people feel,that's the beauty of TV, is they can see us, but we can't see them.

A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.

To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

Only bugs can truly appreciate the beauty of flowers.