Observation Quotes - Page 2

• You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

  Mos Def

  Manipulate, Asks

  "House Music: Mos Def". Interview with Spank Rock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2009.

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• Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then wait until the right time for something magical to come along and fill it.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Art, Creating

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• Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Purpose, Genius, Fine

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• Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Conclusion, Draws, Happens

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Eye, Class, Common

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• There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Good Man, Desire

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• Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking.

  Rama Swami

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Yoga

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• A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

  Alexis Carrel

  Truth, Errors, Littles

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• It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts made by successive generations of men--the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid.

  Samuel Smiles

  Art, Men, Pyramids

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.100

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• Art demands constant observation.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Demand, Constant

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• We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

  Maria Montessori

  Philosophy, Mean, Medicine

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• Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.

  Horace Mann

  Eye, Ears, Activity

  "Every Other Sunday Vol. 23" The Unitarian Sunday-School Society, (p. 19), 1907.

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• All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Thinking, Perception, Intuition

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.

  Stephen Hawking

  Beautiful, Simple, Connections

  "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com.

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• The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

  Henry Moore

  Artist

  Henry Moore, Sir Herbert Edward Read (1944). “Henry Moore: sculpture and drawings”

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• Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Common Sense, Logic

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1902). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, Illustrated by the Crayfish”

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• It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.

  David Hockney

  Artist, People, World

  David Hockney (1977). “David Hockney”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Science, Experience, Scientific Method

  The Gods

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• If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.

  PZ Myers

  Religious, World, Faces

  Profile at Freedom from Religion Foundation, ffrf.org.

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• Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Eye, Desire, Ears

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• A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

  Alexander Pope

  Business, Nice, Often Is

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.122

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• To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

  "You Might Be a Cowgirl If . . .: A Guide to Life on the Range" by Jill Charlotte Stanford, Robin L. Corey, Globe Pequot, (p. 111), September 4, 2012.

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• Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Doe, Happens, Seeing

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• It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, World, May

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• Science is simply common sense at its best.

  Thomas Huxley

  Motivational, Math, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1902). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, Illustrated by the Crayfish”

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