Air Quote by John Baldessari

I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.

— Mary Beth McKenzie

I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.

— Andre Kertesz

Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep…

— Matsuo Basho

Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the…

— Louis Agassiz

Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.

— James Webb Young

It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.

— Erica Jong

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

— Napoleon Hill

I found out that I could not choose a subject, throw it out of focus, and then have a good picture. I found that…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you…

— Leonardo da Vinci

See who is in the subject. The investigation leads you to pure consciousness beyond the subject.

— Ramana Maharshi

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

See with your ears and hear with your eyes.

— Ken Kesey