Quotes About Observation

I was for the first time in my life living within the limits of my attention's resources. I was observing as much information as I could actually process, think about and contemplate. The fire hose of information was turned off. Instead, I was sipping water at the pace I chose.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.

O full and splendid Moon, whom I Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky

You cant write about stuff you dont know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.

Remember, they've never seen you before in their life.

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

[W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.

If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

Your whole life informs your eye.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.