Quotes About Observation

I've always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it's in daily life or in art.

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.

Outside of performing, (a comedian) is someone who is analyzing life, thinking about it and trying to be observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel on the outside looking in.

Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to watch myself when I get isolated for too long.

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

You notice. And noticing, you live.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.

History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

I get inspiration from my everyday life.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.

Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.