Quotes About Observation

De notities van Louise Bourgeois tonen hoe ze haar angsten en genot probeerde te verwoorden en vorm te geven in de praktijk van haar kunst. Ik twijfel er geen ogenblik aan dat ze daarmee haar leven leefbaarder gemaakt heeft. Vermoedelijk wist Louise niet dat zij met deze constante observatie van haarzelf, haar lichaam en haar verhouding met anderen aan zelfzorg deed.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

Do you think I'm only here when you look at me?

Or that Isaac Porter bit his nails like a man playing a mouth organ?

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

Are you always this wise, Ruth?" "Only when it comes to other people's lives.

In the same way that fish had quickness, cats had a way of being still. That was their gift, and you could learn a lot by watching them get there.

That's the problem with going into the world, isn't it? You actually have to face things you find you don't want to know. In the same way that fish had quickness, cats had a way of being still. That was their gift, and you could learn a lot by watching them get there. If you lay close with them, and matched your breathing with theirs, you sometimes thought you had a great and very rare secret.

When I turned to leave the groom to his work, I saw that D's ranch manager had been watching us. His name was Boy Long, and he was exotic-looking for these parts, with jet-black hair and a single gold hoop in one ear. His particular flair made me think of a pirate. "What's in the tincture?" he wanted to know. "Nothing unusual." He looked me up and down. "I don't believe you, but you can keep your secret." A

Though Kenya was vast, there was surprisingly little privacy in our colony. Everyone seemed to know everyone else's business, particularly when it was personal.

stood and looked at them—a band of ruddy, high-boned Scots in a silky brown Indian sea. Jock's mother was the pinkest of all, like a flamingo in bright silk. She

She wouldn't have seen any of the dinginess, because no one ever does until they're on he outside of a place, looking in.

Still, I don't trust a man I haven't seen tight.

baobab. Away in the distance I could see the cloud-softened

There's no secret, just keep your eyes open. Open all the time, but especially when you think you can't be surprised. That's when you learn to pay attention, to listen to your own voice.

She wouldn't have seen any of the dinginess, because no one ever does until they're on the outside of a place, looking in.

She was quite surprised to notice that the "toys" she had placed in the room were among those things virtually untouched.

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.

The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.

Nadia listened in perfect, ratlike silence.

Her only flair is in her nostrils.

Alexander was silent. "Now you're really tiny," he said at last. "I'm not tiny," she returned. "You're just outsized." Blushing, she lowered her gaze.

Russians are easy to spot, even if you dress them like Buckingham Palace guards. They are "the white people who look seriously ticked off," as Army Ranger vet Ellis Jones, RKC, has put it on our forum.

It is not I who mix the colors but your own vision,' he answered. 'I only place them next to one another on the wall in their natural state; it is the observer who mixes the colors in his own eye, like porridge. Therein lies the secret. The better the porridge, the better the painting, but you cannot make good porridge from bad buckwheat. Therefore, faith in seeing, listening, and reading is more important than faith in painting, singing, or writing.