Robert Irwin Quotes

I have always tried to live by the 'awe principle.' That is: Can I find awe, wonder and enchantment in the most mundane things conceivable?

The universe is in the habit of making beauty. There are flowers and songs, snowflakes and smiles, acts of great courage, laughter between friends, a job well done, the smell of fresh baked bread. Beauty is everywhere.

I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

There's a whole load of stuff in life that is worth documenting. You see it every day but don't even notice.

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.

There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that's harder than others.

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.

Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is.

Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty!

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

Every day that I live, I try to find the beauty in things.

Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.

I live near a beautiful park, and when I walk around it, the beauty of it can take your breath away. It makes you realize there is something bigger, certainly bigger than me.

The moments that I feel the most imbued with a sense of awe are always the moments when I am outdoors. I can't help but feel a certain sense of wonder - I become almost filled with it.

We take miracles for granted on a daily basis.