Quotes About Observation

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

all that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.

Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

You can see the ball go past them, or the man, but you'll never see both man and ball go past at the same time. So if the ball goes past, the man won't, or if the man goes past they'll take the ball.

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

I like taking my time and seeing the things around me and appreciating the now.

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard the brain as "observing itself" all the time!

I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.

O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

I'm painfully aware of my surroundings at all times.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.