Quotes About Observation

When I'm taking a picture of Aya Sofia, what counts is the person passing by who stands for life

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

It is what you choose not to observe in your life that controls your life.

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very much a part of things most of the time and feel very comfortable socializing and have for most of my life.

A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger change that are to come

If you take a deep breath and look around, 'Look what's happening to me!' can become 'Look what's happening!' And what's happening? The incredible drama of life is happening. And we're in it!

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.

Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.