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Letter "O" » observation
«I do a bale of sketches, one eye, a piece of hair. A pound of observation, then an ounce of painting.»
«If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.»
«Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.»
«My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the t»
Author: Henri Matisse
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Artist,
Painter)
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Keywords:
colors,
complementary,
Delacroix,
inspired,
observation,
pages,
preoccupied,
preoccupies,
preoccupy,
rest on,
scientific,
scientific theory,
sensibilities,
sensibility,
T,
The T
«It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.»
«Observation - activity of both eyes and ears»
«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.' Creative viewing.»
«Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.»
«I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
compare,
disappointed,
expectation,
from time to time,
instructive,
liable,
observation,
register,
registered,
registering,
registers,
The Register
«Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.»
Author: Seneca
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About:
Ignorance,
Men,
People,
Wisdom
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Keywords:
beyond,
both,
either,
existence,
ignorant,
middle,
Middle way,
non,
observation,
transcended,
transcends,
Wise Men