Quotes About Observation

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

How can the world be seen at such speeds? Where do people need to go so badly they can't realize what is already here, outside the car window?

A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he heard, Why aren't we all like that old bird?

Quem não olha, deixa de prestar atenção nas coisas.

watched John and I

Well, maybe he was learning something about Southern manners. She

how he gathered every morsel for later use as ammunition. His skill in this was impressive; he might not even be paying attention, and still, somehow, he absorbed details she shared. The most mundane, irrelevant facts were corrupted in his grip.

Percival guessed that his prey preferred to listen, letting her friends carry on with whatever amusing nonsense filled their lives, while she privately assessed their habits, cataloging their strengths and faults with clinical ruthlessness.

Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.

It's ironic that people speak of artists as dreamers. I think they are the most grounded people around. Conscious and present. As an artist, you really see life, connect with its beauty, and create something that shares those observations with others. You notice things.

An artist is someone who sees and feels realty very intensely. Creativity doesn't mean just making things up out of thin air. It means seeing and feeling the world so vividly that you can put together connections and patterns that help to explain reality. It means you see the beauty in the world rather than trying to hide from it.

This day is full of extraordinary things that you are missing. Wonderful sights, like the sun on your counterpane, the hairs on your cat's tail, the cracks in the paint on your radiator, the leaves piling up against the curve. Wonderful smells, wonderful sounds. Wonderful people. Wonderful opportunities. Today is wonderful. But perhaps you have lost your sense of wonder.

look before you draw and believe what your eyes, not the rest of your head, tell you.

Contour, negative space, and measurements. You just learned the three important lessons in drawing and saved yourself four years of art school.

Keep your eyes on the things you are drawing 80 percent of the time and on your page just 20 percent.

Making art will show you how much you already have. Your real treasures. A brand-new Maserati is a lot less beautiful to draw than a rusty old pickup.

Get used to eating cold toast. Draw your breakfast every day. Then eat it.

The ABCD strategy —always be collecting dots.

A race track is a place where windows clean people.

I poked a monk.

I apologize. I feel I've let you down somehow with my tales of reasonable and efficient travel. I'm sure if I'd been Bill Bryson my taxi driver would have told me a funny story, or something. I'm afraid mine simply listened to the BBC London and was outraged by everything the presenter was saying. He did spit when he talked, though, if that's any use to you.

I found shelter from a thin rain in the laundrette opposite, the hot air thick with Persil.

Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.