Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.

There is creation in the eye.

I'm inspired by everything that goes on around me. I'm a sponge. I'm very analytical. I notice the things that most people don't notice.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.

I truly find inspiration everywhere. I always tell students, and young people starting out, that the single most important skill, next to listening, is to pay attention. You never know where inspiration will strike.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

Once I started to look i finally began to see.

I think inspiration is always around; it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.

The better you look, the more you see.

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.

The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.

Now, it's so sacred. It's how I see the world. I can't help but look at people, their physicality, and how they move. It's how I see everything.

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

The best that can happen is that someone can catch a glimpse of the glory you're hinting at.

Vision is more than looking.

I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I’m not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at — just walking around Williamsburg, for example — is a great opportunity for ideas. I’ve been here before, I’ve seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they’ve attached a light to a house.

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.