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Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.
We appreciate beautiful things not for their utility only, but also for what they are in themselves - or more plausibly, for how they appear in themselves.
There are three things admiration affirms; the lack of autonomy, the senility of the mind, and the strength of desperation. Irrationality and inferiority are the progenitors of admiration.
There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.
A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.
Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.
All this seeing.
All this relentless taking in.
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.
He appreciated all beautiful things. As she stood before him poised, scrutinizing every inch of his face, liable to strike him, he thought she was the most incredible thing he had seen in his life. She didn't step away from fear, she walked up to it.
In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.
Beauty depends on the unseen, the visible upon the invisible
A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.
It's amazing what you can see when you just sit quietly and look.
Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.
What we admire we praise; and when we praise,
Advance it into notice, that its worth
Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
Even beauty diminishes with study. It is better to glance than gawk.
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.
I stand in awe of my body.
So many things becomes beautiful when you really look.
I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.
If you didn't show me, I wouldn't stare.
We do not want to merely "see" beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.
Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
Genuine awe connects us with the world in a new way.
I look with wonder at that which is before me.
The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.
A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.
I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,
a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us.
The acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty
When you look at a natural beauty, it also looks at you! Since both the viewer and the viewed are miracles, two miracles look at each other in admiration!
Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
Mused, examining her own stunning reflection
There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.
Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
It's hard not to stand in awe and enchantment with the beauty in which nature expresses herself.
We act as a conduit for the observers' unexpressed desires, the silent appreciation they may contain for anything; a lover, a river, a building even
You can see a lot just by observing.
If you will only pause, as you hurry through your days, take a minute to look at passersby, beyond cursory skin-deep analysis, all the way into their eyes, what beauty you might find woven from the life threads there.
Observe perpetually!
It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind.
It was a strange glance; she had noticed it before; a glance of simple worship. And it made her realize that there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence.
ADMIRE means, I really look up to you and the way you are with your cookies. You remind me of what is good and possible in this world.
Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious imitation, I yet never for an instant lose the emotion that has taken hold of me.
Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases
How terrible it must be not to see and feel beauty ... I'm so glad I can find happiness in all lovely little things ... It seems to me that every time I look out of a window the world gives me a gift.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
So many things become beautiful when you really look.
I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator's workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.
...More than looking, what we're really doing is gazing, and we do it for so long I start to get the feeling that nothing else matters.
It's a good feeling.
Better than good.
It's one I could get lost in.
I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within.
Only you can see true beauty when you focus your beautiful light on things.
Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.
There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.
A painter's eye will often be arrested where ordinary people see nothing remarkable. A casual gleam of sunshine, or a shadow thrown across his path, a time-withered oak, or a moss-covered stone may awaken a train of thoughts and feelings, and picturesque imagings.
To see distinctly the machinery
the wheels and pinions
of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.
People say don't stare. Through the photos, not only do I stare, but I allow viewers to stare at the subject, to see things that they cannot see with a casual glance.
I find myself pausing to admire her face.
For a brief moment, I'm lost to my surroundings.
As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value.
What are you looking at?-- Jesse Stone
who can describe beauty? The reader may smile at this as the far-off echo of a precocious calf love, but he will be wrong. There are beauties so unambiguous that they need no lens of that kind to reveal them; they are visible even to the careless and objective eyes of a child.
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
People are watching us again." "Good. Beautiful things should be watched. They shine.
I'm not staring. I'm observing ... And what do you observe? ... A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular.
I glanced up at him. I love things that are beautiful when you don't expect them to be.
To see the beauty, love
Feel free to listen, feel free to stare.
BEAUTY ARISES IN THE STILLNESS OF YOUR PRESENCE
I marvel at everything as if it were new.
Nature's beauty we all admire in every shape and form, but how much more we admire her when the weather's nice and warm.
I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.
For those of us who have come to believe that unless we are thinking we are wasting time, it may be challenging to simply linger with a beautiful sunset, an exquisite painting, or an arresting piece of music. The intellect often reacts to the seductions of beauty by attempting to recapture us.
The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for things ...
Their eager eyes unlocking the secrets of the human form. who could just look at it as it is, without prettying it up or emphasizing its awfulness
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.
Be appreciating to see the beauty of life.
I cannot believe the sensuality of admiration can measure the depth of beauty that is bestowed upon you.
Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts
I admire from a distance. Too close and the flaws form a craterous landscape and the charm is lost. Who do you think I am, Neil Armstrong?
One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen.
Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration!
A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.
There's beauty all around our paths,
If but our watchful eyes
Can trace it 'midst familiar things,
And through their lowly guise.
Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.
Sometimes we just have to take the time to notice something to see how amazing it is.
To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.
When you look out of a window, when you look at anything, you know what you're seeing? Yourself. A thing can only look beautiful or romantic or inspiring only if the beauty or romance or inspiration is inside you.
I just wanted to know what it felt like to be someone you look at.