Quotes About Observation

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.

Art does not render what is visible, but renders visible.

then traced a fingertip across his forehead, around one eye, along the length of his nose. As if she wanted to later draw his likeness.

Lately she'd been charting Bobby's moods like a meteorologist watching tropical storms. Something was bothering him, and he wasn't talking.

Esta tarde ví llover, Vi gente correr, y no estabas tu.

George Carlin's voice: "Think of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that.

All we have to do to see is open our eyes and look. As we teach what we learn, I am in essence talking to myself.

Romance isn't dead, it's just under constant surveillance.

The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal curiosity. He takes snapshots, makes notes and records impressions on tablecloths or newspapers, on backs of envelopes or matchbooks. Why one thing and not another is part of the mystery, but he is omnivorous.

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

The designer does not, as a rule, begin with some preconceived idea. Rather, the idea is (or should be) the result of careful study and observation, and the design a product of that idea.

In some cultures they don't name their babies right away. They wait until they see how the child develops. Like in Dances with Wolves. Unfortunately, our kids' names would be less romantic and poetic. "This is my oldest boy, Falls off His Tricycle, his friend, Dribbles His Juice, and my beautiful daughter, Allergic to Nuts."

55. See as for the first time a beauteous person as an ordinary object.

Just from Farrell stalking away I was absorbing so much, including the fact that at any given moment in history, and excluding nurses and brides, there are only at most three people on the planet who can get away with wearing all white, and Farrell was at least two of them.

The person you have to watch is the one pointing the finger.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

When Kirchhoff had studied sunlight with his spectroscope, he had detected a number of unaccountable dark bands in its spectrum. The light from the sun had to pass through its atmosphere, and he realized that these dark bands were the 'fingerprints' of the

As someone who has long observed the techniques of creating politically acceptable language, and has sometimes been a practitioner of that craft, I would say that the principal difference between the first and the revised draft is in the weasel words.

Describe the situation as you see it without exaggerating, making judgments, or explaining how you feel about it.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

J'ai toujours fait mes vers en m'observant les faire.

Quem é mais estranho a si do que aquele que se sente a ver o que vê?