Vik Muniz Quotes

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

I simply liked looking at the world around us.

A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.

I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.

Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

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.

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

I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

You always have to look for something beautiful wherever you go.

When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It's about having an attitude of gratitude.

Something that's very important is to preserve the sense of surprise, the sense of discovery. The eye of the person you are talking to, your shadow on the ground. It's important not to get suffocated by all the things in life and lose that sense of surprise.

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 try to take all of my experiences in and not take anything for granted.

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing.

Wherever we are we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other and the wonder of our breathing.

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.