Quotes About Observation

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

Pay attention even to life's trifles.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

You collect impressions from people, from life, from your own daydreams.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

Art comes from life, not from the studio

It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.

You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

Everyone has their personal topics. My comedy has always been very strong on observational humor, it stems from what I see every day in my life.

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.