Quotes About Observation

A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind.

Poema de beco Que importa a paisagem, a Glória, a baía a linha do horizonte? -O que vejo é o beco.

grandmother used to say, you can always find something wrong with someone else if you really want to.

Fools never learn from their mistakes; Smart people learn from their mistakes; Wise people learn from other people's mistakes.

the mention of age is only a reference point in the observation of the self.

How pleasant it is', says the Roman poet, 'to listen to a storm from the safe shelter of the shore.

Buying is an activity understood by economists. Shopping is a phenomenon of interest to anthropologists and sociologists.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

Les gens ne font déjà pas attention aux autres, alors à leurs ombres...

Tu t'es beaucoup ennuyée? – Soixante-quatre voitures sont passées dans ta rue, dont dix-neuf vertes!

Chiar aÅŸa ce? Ai mai luat autobuzul sau metroul, ai mai mers pe str?zi? Oamenii petrec mai mult timp cu ochii în telefoanele lor decât uitându-se la ce se întâmpl? în jur. În zilele noastre, singurul mijloc de a atrage atenÅ£ia este s? zâmbeÅŸti pe un ecran de smartphone, nu-i vina mea, dar aÅŸa stau lucrurile.

Awareness is the key to self-defense.

was seated at the front of coach in an aisle seat, directly behind the first-class dividing wall and the flight attendant service area. It's my favorite seat on a plane. I like watching people get on the plane so I can judge them. I like judging. I didn't see any real problems among the passengers who awkwardly clumped onto the plane, but I definitely felt like I was in a better place than some of them, which helped take the edge off my mood. Judging works.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

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

Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.

Si je perdais ma bibliothèque, j'aurais toujours le métro et l'autobus. Un billet le matin, un billet le soir et je lirais les visages. [in Citations de Marcel Jouhandeau]

The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Mystery is not about traveling to new places but about looking with new eyes.

She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.