Quotes About Clarity

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

Art is not to throw light but to be light.

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

The art of art... is simplicity.

It is either easy or impossible.

Mathematics is an art of human understanding.

I don't like hype cluttering art.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.

The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.

Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.

The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.