Christian Morgenstern Quotes

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

I grow green beans in my garden. The one thing I know about harvesting them is that you need to train your eyes to see the beans. At first it all looks like leaves, until you see one bean and then another and another. If you want clarity, too, you have to look hard. You have to look under things and look from different angles. You'll see what you need to when you do that. A hundred beans, suddenly.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

No matter how prosaic something is that you've done and been a part of again and again, there is so much more there that you haven't seen.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

There is something in me that makes me see things through.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

We must look a long time before we can see.

Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.

Once I started to look i finally began to see.

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

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution - even if it's right in front of your nose.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)