51 quotes found
“If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to see you, and to give a fuck - you've already blown it.”
“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.”
“As a man is so he sees.”
“My evening visitors if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.”
“I keep six honest serving-men they taught me all I know their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who”
“The difference between landscape and landscape is small but there's a great difference in the beholders.”
“The ear tends to be lazy craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected the eye on the other hand tends to be impatient craves the novel and is bored by repetition.”
“One must always tell what one sees. Above all which is more difficult one must always see what one sees.”
“Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life and are attached to the duties yet escape the harsher blows make acute and balanced observers.”
“The lower classes of men though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting the difference between them and a man of learning ...”
