“To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.” HelpingEyeAbleArtistInspireStrangerObservation Book:The substance of man Source: The substance of man
“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.” PeopleWorldSometimesWantedArtistDifficultDecidedObservationVisualsFacilityExamining Book:David Hockney Source: David Hockney
“It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.” GivingFeelingsArtistWishPaintingPerceptionObservationAtmosphereRegister Author:Lucian Freud
“The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.” ArtistUnderstandingDirectObservation Author:Robert Genn
“I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person's random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. (And this person, in the poems, is not the "alienated artist" cut off from everybody who isn't, yum-yum, another alienated artist; he is someone like normal people only more so - a normal person in the less common and more important sense of normal.)” PeopleNeedsWellsPersonsImportantFeelingsArtistCommonCuttingNormalPerceptionEmpathyPraiseObservationChainsFrostThoughts And FeelingsHornets Author:Randall Jarrell
“The artivist (artist +activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression – by any medium necessary. The artivist merges commitment to freedom and justice with the pen, the lens, the brush, the voice, the body, and the imagination. The artivist knows that to make an observation is to have an obligation.” KnowsUseBodyArtistFightingVoiceImaginationJusticeStruggleTalentCommitmentInjusticeObligationMediumsOppressionObservationArtisticPensActivistBrushesLensesInjustice And OppressionArtistic Talent Author:M. K. Asante
“Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day.” GivingLooksFeelingsArtistProcessMinutesGiving UpObservationPlanesInsignificantBane Author:Paul Bourget
“You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to achieve as an artist - seeing things in a different way. Kids are constantly saying things that are funny and surprising and their observations are just... you know, they're like little artists themselves.” KnowsWayWantChildrenLittlesDifferentKidsArtistSeeingAchieveWhat You WantObservationDifferent WaysSurprising Author:Tim Burton