Gustave Flaubert Quotes

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside?

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

I'm curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people. If you keep your eyes open and your mind open, everything can be interesting.

Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.

Almost everything is interesting if you work at it.

I like to look in the crevices of things, the nooks and the crannies. I like to see the things other people don't see, don't want to look at.

Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.

I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.

I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.