Quotes About Observation

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, all in perspective.

Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed [in a painting], will set off a revolution.

Monet is only an eye—but what an eye!

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

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

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. Paul Cezanne

If you see a red tree, paint it bright red.

Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day.

We are not really spying, we're just satisfying our curiosity.

watching them

I've seen the hollow, empty eyes of desperate people staggering under the weight of debt and twisting with the agony of poverty. And now I could make money off of having seen that. Finally, a job I was qualified for!

Perception begins with what is experienced, rather than beginning with what is expected; the model is to "see and understand" rather than "understand and see.

Lying is such a central characteristic of life that better understanding of it is relevant to almost all human affairs.

The behavioral clues in face, body, voice, and manner of speaking are not signs of lying per se. They may be signs of emotions that don't fit with what is being said. Or they may be signs that the suspect is thinking about what he is saying before he says it. They are flags marking areas which need to be explored.

when they were, in fact, lying. They were taken in by the false expressions and ignored the expressions that leaked the true feelings. When people lie, their most evident, easy-to-see expressions, which people pay most attention to, are often the false ones. The subtle signs

Mrs Harris was sixtyish, small and wiry, with cheeks like frosted apples, and naughty little eyes.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

Indeed there may be more: a chorus of me, the observed and the observers.

Hypocrites,' replied Cale, 'I've come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.