Observation Quotes

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." "I think people listen with their eyes, hearing sees more than the ear sees." "I think: the sky is blue and the flowers are red." "Science is nothing but perception" "Poetry is the watchful eye of the human race" "I see things from a distance, never the meaning. " "Experience has taught me that the features of a man's face are a narrative which is revealed as attentively as a fragment of a written text " "Nothing is so curious as the mix of an apartment far up among the chimney-pots and the little world that hurries and jostles below." "I was afraid of looking into the people's faces, their eyes were so sharp and burning. Their glances were unlike the glances of ordinary people" "Half the people you know are below average." "You cannot directly perceive sunlight; you can only perceive its reflections and refractions." "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." "The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes " "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference" "You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you." "The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down" "Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity." "We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn" "I am afraid that if you look at a thing long enough it loses all of its meaning " "The more I see of humans the more I like horses"