429 Quotes About Observation

One of the benefits of being an artist is being very observant.

Everywhere I go, it's me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.

Remember yourself. Deep inside, you have an observer, a constant neutral witness to your posture, gesture, facial expression, breathing, taste, impressions of light and sound. Don't leap to interpret. Just be there and observe.

You have to look closely to see clearly.

Most of the things we deem as impossible are only impossible because we’ve given them permission to be impossible.

Observation is a dying art.

There is magic happening around us. Are our windows open to let that magic enter our life?

The first thing that has to go is any form of artistic self-expression that's dear to you. Art is unimportant next to life, and you have no choice. I had no hunger for it, anyway. Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work. It was impossible now for me to observe anything without being observed.

The bus is late. Cars drive by. Rich people n cars never look at people on the street, at all. Poor ones always do ... in fact it sometimes seems they're just driving around, looking at people on the street. I've done that. Poor people wait a lot. Welfare, unemployment lines, laundromats, phone booths, emergency rooms, jails, etc.