Quotes About Observation

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.

My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.

See into life, don't just look at it

In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."

Joe Budden TV is life through the eyes of Joe Budden. You've gotta go check it out - it's pretty fun.

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.

It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.

Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.

Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.

I only come to life when there are people watching.

I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.