Quotes About Observation

Don't be like the frog. Keep an eye on the big picture. Constantly review what's happening around you, not just what you personally are doing.

Never run on auto-pilot. Constantly be thinking, critiquing your work in real time.

I believe that it is better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked. • Mae West, Belle of the Nineties, 1934

My dear Prince, might I beg you to move a little more that way, for your nose casts such a shadow that I really cannot see what I have on my plate

As a student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become and artist. There is a formula, but it has not been in books. It is really plain old courage, standing on one's own feet, and forever seeking enlightenment; courage to develop your way, but learning from the other fellow; experimentation with your own ideas, observing for yourself, a rigid discipline of doing over that which you can improve.

I absolutely look at people's bookshelves. And I have some judgment. I mean, they're openly showing you themselves.

Nothing has happened in right field all season, which is why he was put there: a kind of athletic Canada.

No one could rival Author Less for his ability to exit a room while remaining inside it. He sat, and his mind immediately left me behind...I was too much in law of his self-sufficiency, of his freedom. To disappear within himself for ten or fifteen minutes while I drew him, when I could barely sit still to hold the pencil.

One grey cloak is much like another, just as all cats are grey in the dark.

Take a look at this." "Those poor little ants," says Jill.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it

The world fascinates me.

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

I always notice flowers.

I never read. I just look at pictures.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

She was back on the ground, looking down at the bugs rather than up at the sky.

I don't understand how anyone can write if they don't use public transport. I earwig all the time.

Vera had a stab of recognition which made her stop in her tracks. For a moment, the woman, overweight, aggressive, seen reflected in the shop window, looked very much like her.

You are lucky you are a writer because you will sort through this in ways other souls cannot; the bad part is you feel and see all of this in ways non-writers don't.