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What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gay Science

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Die frohliche Wissenschaft [The Gay Science]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1882, bk. 3, no. 261.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Joyous Science, translated by R. Kevin Hill. Penguin Classics, 2019, bk. 3, no. 261.

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The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

George Sand

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Sand, George. Letter to Madame Juliette Lamber. 7 Apr. 1868.

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You see, but you do not observe.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Scandal in Bohemia

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Scandal in Bohemia." The Strand Magazine. London: July 1891.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Scandal in Bohemia." The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2010.

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Shut your eyes and see.

James Joyce

Ulysses

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Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 3.

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Nobody sees a flower-really-it is so small-we haven't time-and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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O'Keeffe, Georgia. "About Myself." Georgia O'Keeffe: Exhibition of Oils and Pastels at An American Place. An American Place, 1939.

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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Francis Bacon

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Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. London: Oxford: Rob Youn and Ed Forrest, 1605, bk. 2, ch. 20, sect. 8.

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Bacon, Francis. "The Advancement of Learning." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 20, sect. 8.

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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing!

Camille Pissarro

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Pissarro, Camille. Letter to his son Lucien. 26 July 1893.

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Pissarro, Camille. Quoted in Letters of the Great Artists: From Blake to Pollock, edited by Richard Friedenthal. Random House, 1963.

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Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

Gerald M. Edelman

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Edelman, Sam and Giulio Tononi. A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination. Basic Books, 2000.

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You learn a lot watching things eat.

The Departed

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The Departed. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Plan B Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment, Media Asia Entertainment Group, Vertigo Films, GK Films, and Media Asia Films, 2006.

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Don't be afraid to just sit and watch.

Anthony Bourdain

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Bourdain, Anthony. "All the Things You're Doing Wrong When You Travel, According to Anthony Bourdain." Interviewed by Megan Leonhardt. Money.com, 12 Mar. 2018, money.com/anthony-bourdain-advice-great-travel/.

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You see things and you understand. You're a wallflower.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Directed by Stephen Chbosky, Mr. Mudd Productions, 2012.

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Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here for long.

Walker Evans

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Evans, Walker. Many are Called. Yale University Press, 2004, p. 197.

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I lean toward the enchantment, the visual power, of the aesthetically rejected subject.

Walker Evans

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Evans, Walker. Interviewed by Yale Alumni Magazine. 1974.

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If anyone wishes to observe the works of nature, he should put his trust not in books of anatomy but in his own eyes.

Galen

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Galen. De Usu Partium Corporis Humani [On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body]. c. 175.

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Galen. On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body, translated by Margaret Tallmadge May. Vol. 1, Cornell University Press, 1968, p. 119.

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