Quotes About Observation

An eclipse is one phenomenon that is actually more impressive from the ground.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

There are some extremely acceptable male comedians out there: Joel Osteen, Abraham Lincoln, the man who played Phil Spector in HBO's 'Phil Spector.' But even those guys, while insightful and amusing, aren't exactly funny.

You look at passers-by in Rome and think, 'Do they know what they have here?' You can say the same about Philadelphia. Do people know what went on here?

I worked among many famous philosophers, and I tried to observe how they treated students. I knew which ones I wanted to be like, and which ones I didn't.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

Here's how I operate. When I see something I like, 20 years later, I ask her brother for her phone number. She don't even see me coming.

Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.

Everybody is watching you every minute anyways. If they think the message you're sending out is phony, they're going to say, 'Who does he think he is?' It's again good business. But it is also an obligation.

A long, long time ago, I was in front of the 'Mona Lisa' and I heard someone saying, 'Ugh! Take your photo and go!' And it bummed me out. Shouldn't there be more of a reverent experience?

In the past, there were many times when I thought, 'This photo doesn't look good with a low angle, or this part bothers me.'

I must beware of the photo, get what I can of it and then go.

I find it funny to look at people who are people-watching, and, don't get me wrong, I like to people-watch, too. But it's an interesting thing when people on the street just stop and ask you, 'Are you Coco? Can I take a photo of you?'

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

To photograph is to confer importance.

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.

I never took a photograph. Instead, I became a good listener.

I always carry a Moleskine journal and a simple Parker Jotter click-pen. Journaling an experience is worth more than any photograph.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.