Quotes About Observation

Science is not a theory of reality, but a method of inquiry.

When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.

Generation after generation, my family's old people sat at this window to watch the year. There are beds in this house where babies were born, where the same babies died eighty years later.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.

Life is not all high emotion. Some of the most interesting things are when its not highly emotional: little details of relationships and body language.

I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

I think people should maybe just go out into the garden and watch a ladybug crawl across a flower and relax their mind. That's about all you need to know about life, I think.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Art happens all the time, everywhere. All we have to do is to keep our minds open.

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.

Wouldn't life be easier for both parents and infants if parents would observe, relax and enjoy what their child is doing, rather than keep teaching what the child is not yet capable of?

I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.

Be truly present in the moment that you are in and don't let life slip by unnoticed.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.