Happy Holidays! Here are my favourite photos from 2023
All of us are watchers – of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway – but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.
Peter M. Leschak
The most satisfying and most basic art experience is looking –pure,unmediated observation and sensation.
Roy Thurston
Seeing is the consequence of optics; observing is the consequence of imaginative contemplation.
Ian Semple
The most satisfying and most basic art experience is looking –pure,unmediated observation and sensation.
Roy Thurston
Art demands constant observation.
Vincent van Gogh
Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most.
Kathryn L. Nelson
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Pablo Picasso
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.
Susan Sontag
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Alexis Carrel
The child does not merely observe the world around him. He does not shut himself off from the strange, complicated world around him, but tastes it, touches it, hefts it, bends it, breaks it. To find out how reality works, he works on it.
John Holt
Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form.
Andrew Loomis
Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form.
Andrew Loomis
Observe ‘what is’ with undivided awareness.
Bruce Lee
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.
William S. Burroughs